Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High‐Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non‐Fullerene Solar Cell

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Sub-picosecond charge-transfer at near-zero driving force in polymer:non-fullerene acceptor blends and bilayers

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Unifying Charge Generation, Recombination, and Extraction in Low‐Offset Non‐Fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells

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Highly Efficient Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cells Operate at Near Zero Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Offsets

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Towards the Organic Double Heterojunction Solar Cell

(2019) Loren G. Kaake   CHEMICAL RECORD

Impact of molecular quadrupole moments on the energy levels at organic heterojunctions

(2019) Martin Schwarze et al.   Nature Communications

Anatomy of the energetic driving force for charge generation in organic solar cells

(2019) Kyohei Nakano et al.   Nature Communications

Impact of Fullerene on the Photophysics of Ternary Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Safakath Karuthedath et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Subtle Molecular Tailoring Induces Significant Morphology Optimization Enabling over 16% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells with Efficient Charge Generation

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Accurate Determination of the Minimum HOMO Offset for Efficient Charge Generation using Organic Semiconducting Alloys

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Improved Charge Generation via Ultrafast Effective Hole-Transfer in All-Polymer Photovoltaic Blends with Large Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) Energy Offset and Proper Crystal Orientation

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The Role of FRET in Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells: Implications for Molecular Design

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The Role of Semilabile Oxygen Atoms for Intercalation Chemistry of the Metal-Ion Battery Polyanion Cathodes

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How accurate are energies of HOMO and LUMO levels in small-molecule organic semiconductors determined from cyclic voltammetry or optical spectroscopy?

(2018) Juliusz Sworakowski   SYNTHETIC METALS

Key Tradeoffs Limiting the Performance of Organic Photovoltaics

(2018) Ivan Ramirez et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Carrier Transport and Recombination in Efficient “All-Small-Molecule” Solar Cells with the Nonfullerene Acceptor IDTBR

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Thermal annealing reduces geminate recombination in TQ1:N2200 all-polymer solar cells

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Impact of Nonfullerene Acceptor Core Structure on the Photophysics and Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells

(2018) Maha A. Alamoudi et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

(2018) Cenqi Yan et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Revealing the Importance of Energetic and Entropic Contributions to the Driving Force for Charge Photogeneration

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Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with Small Driving Forces for Both Hole and Electron Transfer

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The Impact of Driving Force and Temperature on the Electron Transfer in Donor–Acceptor Blend Systems

(2017) Thomas Unger et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Origin and role of gap states in organic semiconductor studied by UPS: as the nature of organic molecular crystals

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A Wide-Bandgap Donor Polymer for Highly Efficient Non-fullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Small Voltage Loss

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Dual Förster resonance energy transfer effects in non-fullerene ternary organic solar cells with the third component embedded in the donor and acceptor

(2017) Pengqing Bi et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Design and Synthesis of a Low Bandgap Small Molecule Acceptor for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Huifeng Yao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Long-Range Embedding of Molecular Ions and Excitations in a Polarizable Molecular Environment

(2016) Carl Poelking et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Electrostatic phenomena in organic semiconductors: fundamentals and implications for photovoltaics

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Dichotomous Role of Exciting the Donor or the Acceptor on Charge Generation in Organic Solar Cells

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Band structure engineering in organic semiconductors

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

(2016) Sarah Holliday et al.   Nature Communications

Non-fullerene acceptor with low energy loss and high external quantum efficiency: towards high performance polymer solar cells

(2016) Yongxi Li et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A fused-ring based electron acceptor for efficient non-fullerene polymer solar cells with small HOMO offset

(2016) Yongxi Li et al.   Nano Energy

Fermi level, work function and vacuum level

(2016) Antoine Kahn   Materials Horizons

The Impact of Driving Force on Electron Transfer Rates in Photovoltaic Donor-Acceptor Blends

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Design Rules for Organic Donor–Acceptor Heterojunctions: Pathway for Charge Splitting and Detrapping

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Impact of mesoscale order on open-circuit voltage in organic solar cells

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Charge separation energetics at organic heterojunctions: on the role of structural and electrostatic disorder

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Note: Low energy inverse photoemission spectroscopy apparatus

(2014) Hiroyuki Yoshida   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells employing Förster resonance energy transfer

(2013) Jing-Shun Huang et al.   Nature Photonics

Factors Limiting Device Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaics

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Near-ultraviolet inverse photoemission spectroscopy using ultra-low energy electrons

(2012) Hiroyuki Yoshida   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

An Optimal Driving Force for Converting Excitons into Free Carriers in Excitonic Solar Cells

(2012) David C. Coffey et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Microscopic Simulations of Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Semiconductors

(2011) Victor Rühle et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Charge Carrier Formation in Polythiophene/Fullerene Blend Films Studied by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

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