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A High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cell Enabled by the Strong Intramolecular Electron Push-Pull Effect of the Nonfullerene Acceptor

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Ternary System with Controlled Structure: A New Strategy toward Efficient Organic Photovoltaics

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An Alkylated Indacenodithieno[3,2-b ]thiophene-Based Nonfullerene Acceptor with High Crystallinity Exhibiting Single Junction Solar Cell Efficiencies Greater than 13% with Low Voltage Losses

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A Wide Band Gap Polymer with a Deep Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Level Enables 14.2% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

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Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells

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Design rules for minimizing voltage losses in high-efficiency organic solar cells

(2018) Deping Qian et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Stepwise heating in Stille polycondensation toward no batch-to-batch variations in polymer solar cell performance

(2018) Sang Myeon Lee et al.   Nature Communications

Miscibility-Function Relations in Organic Solar Cells: Significance of Optimal Miscibility in Relation to Percolation

(2018) Long Ye et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Isolating and quantifying the impact of domain purity on the performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2017) Wenchao Huang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

High-performance ternary organic solar cells with thick active layer exceeding 11% efficiency

(2017) Nicola Gasparini et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Ternary solar cells with a mixed face-on and edge-on orientation enable an unprecedented efficiency of 12.1%

(2017) Tanya Kumari et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Morphological characterization of fullerene and fullerene-free organic photovoltaics by combined real and reciprocal space techniques

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Fine-Tuned Photoactive and Interconnection Layers for Achieving over 13% Efficiency in a Fullerene-Free Tandem Organic Solar Cell

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High-Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cell Enabled by a Thick Active Layer Containing a Liquid Crystalline Small Molecule Donor

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Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

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An Open-Circuit Voltage and Power Conversion Efficiency Study of Fullerene Ternary Organic Solar Cells Based on Oligomer/Oligomer and Oligomer/Polymer

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Multiple Cases of Efficient Nonfullerene Ternary Organic Solar Cells Enabled by an Effective Morphology Control Method

(2017) Kui Jiang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Quantitative Morphology-Performance Correlations in Organic Solar Cells: Insights from Soft X-Ray Scattering

(2017) Xuechen Jiao et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Combining Energy Transfer and Optimized Morphology for Highly Efficient Ternary Polymer Solar Cells

(2017) Fuwen Zhao et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Strong polymer molecular weight-dependent material interactions: impact on the formation of the polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction morphology

(2017) Joo-Hyun Kim et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Ternary organic solar cells: compatibility controls for morphology evolution of active layers

(2017) Qingyun Ai et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Intrinsic non-radiative voltage losses in fullerene-based organic solar cells

(2017) Johannes Benduhn et al.   Nature Energy

Efficient Charge Transfer and Fine-Tuned Energy Level Alignment in a THF-Processed Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cell with 11.3% Efficiency

(2016) Zhong Zheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Panchromatic Sequentially Cast Ternary Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Masoud Ghasemi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

11% Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells with High Composition Tolerance via Integrated Near-IR Sensitization and Interface Engineering

(2016) Li Nian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ternary Organic Solar Cells Based on Two Compatible Nonfullerene Acceptors with Power Conversion Efficiency >10%

(2016) Tao Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Energy-Level Modulation of Small-Molecule Electron Acceptors to Achieve over 12% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Sunsun Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Over 11% Efficiency in Tandem Polymer Solar Cells Featured by a Low-Band-Gap Polymer with Fine-Tuned Properties

(2016) Zhong Zheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ternary Polymer Solar Cells based on Two Acceptors and One Donor for Achieving 12.2% Efficiency

(2016) Wenchao Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Understanding Morphology Compatibility for High-Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Jiangquan Mai et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

The use of an n-type macromolecular additive as a simple yet effective tool for improving and stabilizing the performance of organic solar cells

(2016) Kwang Hyun Park et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Open circuit voltage and efficiency in ternary organic photovoltaic blends

(2016) N. Felekidis et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Versatile ternary organic solar cells: a critical review

(2016) Qiaoshi An et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages

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Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells

(2016) Derya Baran et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Investigation of Charge Carrier Behavior in High Performance Ternary Blend Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Tack Ho Lee et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Optimized “Alloy-Parallel” Morphology of Ternary Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Zaiyu Wang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Charge Creation and Recombination in Multi-Length Scale Polymer:Fullerene BHJ Solar Cell Morphologies

(2016) Subhrangsu Mukherjee et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Control of Mesoscale Morphology and Photovoltaic Performance in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Small Band Gap Terpolymers

(2016) Long Ye et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Photodegradation of Metal Oxide Interlayers in Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Iordania Constantinou et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Designing ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with reduced carrier recombination and a fill factor of 77%

(2016) Nicola Gasparini et al.   Nature Energy

Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

(2016) Jingbo Zhao et al.   Nature Energy

Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

(2016) Jing Liu et al.   Nature Energy

Characterizing morphology in organic systems with resonant soft X-ray scattering

(2015) Joshua H. Carpenter et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY AND RELATED PHENOMENA

Polymer Solar Cells: Solubility Controls Fiber Network Formation

(2015) Jacobus J. van Franeker et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-performance multiple-donor bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2015) Yang Yang et al.   Nature Photonics

A real-time study of the benefits of co-solvents in polymer solar cell processing

(2015) Jacobus J. van Franeker et al.   Nature Communications

Competition between recombination and extraction of free charges determines the fill factor of organic solar cells

(2015) Davide Bartesaghi et al.   Nature Communications

Significance of Average Domain Purity and Mixed Domains on the Photovoltaic Performance of High-Efficiency Solution-Processed Small-Molecule BHJ Solar Cells

(2015) Subhrangsu Mukherjee et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Efficient Low-Bandgap Polymer Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage and Good Stability

(2015) Tingxuan Ma et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

On the Efficiency of Charge Transfer State Splitting in Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells

(2014) Steve Albrecht et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Morphology and Performance Relationships

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Morphology linked to miscibility in highly amorphous semi-conducting polymer/fullerene blends

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Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells

(2014) Yuhang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

How High Local Charge Carrier Mobility and an Energy Cascade in a Three-Phase Bulk Heterojunction Enable >90% Quantum Efficiency

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Predicting Morphologies of Solution Processed Polymer:Fullerene Blends

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Characterization of the morphology of solution-processed bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics

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Quantitative Determination of Organic Semiconductor Microstructure from the Molecular to Device Scale

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Nika: software for two-dimensional data reduction

(2012) Jan Ilavsky   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis

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The Importance of Fullerene Percolation in the Mixed Regions of Polymer-Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2012) Jonathan A. Bartelt et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Soft X-ray characterisation of organic semiconductor films

(2012) Christopher R. McNeill et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Identifying a Threshold Impurity Level for Organic Solar Cells: Enhanced First-Order Recombination Via Well-Defined PC84BM Traps in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2011) Sarah R. Cowan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Microstructural Characterization and Charge Transport in Thin Films of Conjugated Polymers

(2010) Alberto Salleo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Accounting for Interference, Scattering, and Electrode Absorption to Make Accurate Internal Quantum Efficiency Measurements in Organic and Other Thin Solar Cells

(2010) George F. Burkhard et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Solution-processed organic transistors based on semiconducting blends

(2010) Jeremy Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Molecular Miscibility of Polymer−Fullerene Blends

(2010) Brian A. Collins et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Poly(diketopyrrolopyrrole−terthiophene) for Ambipolar Logic and Photovoltaics

(2009) Johan C. Bijleveld et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

On the origin of the open-circuit voltage of polymer–fullerene solar cells

(2009) Koen Vandewal et al.   NATURE MATERIALS