The role of chemical design in the performance of organic semiconductors

Highly emissive excitons with reduced exchange energy in thermally activated delayed fluorescent molecules

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Eliminating nonradiative decay in Cu(I) emitters: >99% quantum efficiency and microsecond lifetime

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14.7% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Active Materials with a Large Electrostatic Potential Difference

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Realizing 22.5% External Quantum Efficiency for Solution-Processed Thermally Activated Delayed-Fluorescence OLEDs with Red Emission at 622 nm via a Synergistic Strategy of Molecular Engineering and Host Selection

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Electron trapping in conjugated polymers

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Resilience to conformational fluctuations controls energetic disorder in conjugated polymer materials: Insights from atomistic simulations

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Selective triplet exciton formation in a single molecule

(2019) Kensuke Kimura et al.   NATURE

Narrowband deep-blue organic light-emitting diode featuring an organoboron-based emitter

(2019) Yasuhiro Kondo et al.   Nature Photonics

Realization of high-efficiency fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes with low driving voltage

(2019) Amin Salehi et al.   Nature Communications

Chasing the “Killer” Phonon Mode for the Rational Design of Low‐Disorder, High‐Mobility Molecular Semiconductors

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Critical role of intermediate electronic states for spin-flip processes in charge-transfer-type organic molecules with multiple donors and acceptors

(2019) Hiroki Noda et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Origin and Control of Orientation of Phosphorescent and TADF Dyes for High-Efficiency OLEDs

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Exploiting Singlet Fission in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

(2018) Ryo Nagata et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Over 14% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Chlorinated Nonfullerene Small-Molecule Acceptors

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Complementary Logic Circuits Based on High-Performance n-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistors

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Fused electron deficient semiconducting polymers for air stable electron transport

(2018) Ada Onwubiko et al.   Nature Communications

Efficient radical-based light-emitting diodes with doublet emission

(2018) Xin Ai et al.   NATURE

Ring-Fusion of Perylene Diimide Acceptor Enabling Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Small Voltage Loss

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Synthesis and Exciton Dynamics of Donor-Orthogonal Acceptor Conjugated Polymers: Reducing the Singlet–Triplet Energy Gap

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Up-Conversion Intersystem Crossing Rates in Organic Emitters for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Impact of the Nature of Singlet vs Triplet Excited States

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Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Wenchao Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-performance light-emitting diodes based on carbene-metal-amides

(2017) Dawei Di et al.   SCIENCE

Emitter Orientation as a Key Parameter in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

(2017) Tobias D. Schmidt et al.   Physical Review Applied

Ultrapure Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules: Efficient HOMO-LUMO Separation by the Multiple Resonance Effect

(2016) Takuji Hatakeyama et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Sky-Blue Organic Light Emitting Diode with 37% External Quantum Efficiency Using Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from Spiroacridine-Triazine Hybrid

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

(2016) D. Baran et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Molecular Design of Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors

(2016) Christian B. Nielsen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The rise of plastic bioelectronics

(2016) Takao Someya et al.   NATURE

High operational and environmental stability of high-mobility conjugated polymer field-effect transistors through the use of molecular additives

(2016) Mark Nikolka et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

Near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes with very high external quantum efficiency and radiance

(2016) Kiet Tuong Ly et al.   Nature Photonics

Controlling the mode of operation of organic transistors through side-chain engineering

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Structural control of mixed ionic and electronic transport in conducting polymers

(2016) Jonathan Rivnay et al.   Nature Communications

High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

(2016) Sarah Holliday et al.   Nature Communications

Revealing the spin–vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence

(2016) Marc K. Etherington et al.   Nature Communications

To bend or not to bend – are heteroatom interactions within conjugated molecules effective in dictating conformation and planarity?

(2016) Gary Conboy et al.   Materials Horizons

The Role of Local Triplet Excited States and D-A Relative Orientation in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Photophysics and Devices

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An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

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Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Using a Neutral π Radical as Emitter: The Emission from a Doublet

(2015) Qiming Peng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Effect of Fluorination of 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole

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Exciton Diffusion in Conjugated Polymers: From Fundamental Understanding to Improvement in Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency

(2015) Yasunari Tamai et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

High Quantum Efficiencies in Polymer Solar Cells at Energy Losses below 0.6 eV

(2015) Weiwei Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-Performance Solution-Processed Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Based on Selenophene-Containing Perylene Bisimide Acceptor

(2015) Dong Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics

(2015) Sarah Holliday et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Understanding and predicting the orientation of heteroleptic phosphors in organic light-emitting materials

(2015) Matthew J. Jurow et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Deep blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes with very high brightness and efficiency

(2015) Jaesang Lee et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Purely organic electroluminescent material realizing 100% conversion from electricity to light

(2015) Hironori Kaji et al.   Nature Communications

Effect of Chalcogen Atom Substitution on the Optoelectronic Properties in Cyclopentadithiophene Polymers

(2014) Miquel Planells et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Approaching disorder-free transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers

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Highly efficient blue electroluminescence based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence

(2014) Shuzo Hirata et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Efficient blue organic light-emitting diodes employing thermally activated delayed fluorescence

(2014) Qisheng Zhang et al.   Nature Photonics

High-efficiency organic light-emitting diodes with fluorescent emitters

(2014) Hajime Nakanotani et al.   Nature Communications

Towards optimisation of photocurrent from fullerene excitons in organic solar cells

(2013) Stoichko D. Dimitrov et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Systematic Investigation of Isoindigo-Based Polymeric Field-Effect Transistors: Design Strategy and Impact of Polymer Symmetry and Backbone Curvature

(2012) Ting Lei et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Influence of Side-Chain on Structural Order and Photophysical Properties in Thiophene Based Diketopyrrolopyrroles: A Systematic Study

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Highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes from delayed fluorescence

(2012) Hiroki Uoyama et al.   NATURE

A Systematic Approach to the Design Optimization of Light-Absorbing Indenofluorene Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics

(2012) James Kirkpatrick et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Solution-processed small-molecule solar cells with 6.7% efficiency

(2011) Yanming Sun et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Ladder-Type Molecules and Polymers. Air-Stable, Solution-Processablen-Channel and Ambipolar Semiconductors for Thin-Film Transistors via Experiment and Theory

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