A Critical Review on Efficient Thick‐Film Organic Solar Cells

High‐Performance Pseudoplanar Heterojunction Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Nonfullerene Alloyed Acceptor

(2020) Ji Wan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Thick‐Film Organic Solar Cells Achieving over 11% Efficiency and Nearly 70% Fill Factor at Thickness over 400 nm

(2020) Wei Gao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Graphdiyne Derivative as Multifunctional Solid Additive in Binary Organic Solar Cells with 17.3% Efficiency and High Reproductivity

(2020) Le Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Unraveling the Microstructure‐Related Device Stability for Polymer Solar Cells Based on Nonfullerene Small‐Molecular Acceptors

(2020) Xiaoyan Du et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

What is Killing Organic Photovoltaics: Light‐Induced Crosslinking as a General Degradation Pathway of Organic Conjugated Molecules

(2020) Olga R. Yamilova et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

18% Efficiency organic solar cells

(2020) Qishi Liu et al.   Science Bulletin

Alloy-like ternary polymer solar cells with over 17.2% efficiency

(2020) Qiaoshi An et al.   Science Bulletin

Single‐Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Approaching 18% Efficiency

(2020) Yong Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Highly Efficient All‐Small‐Molecule Organic Solar Cells with Appropriate Active Layer Morphology by Side Chain Engineering of Donor Molecules and Thermal Annealing

(2020) Beibei Qiu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Highly efficient quaternary organic photovoltaics by optimizing photogenerated exciton distribution and active layer morphology

(2020) Xiaoling Ma et al.   Nano Energy

Achieving 17.4% Efficiency of Ternary Organic Photovoltaics with Two Well‐Compatible Nonfullerene Acceptors for Minimizing Energy Loss

(2020) Xiaoling Ma et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Interfacial Modification in Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells

(2019) Shiqing Bi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The role of the third component in ternary organic solar cells

(2019) Nicola Gasparini et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Solvent additive-free ternary polymer solar cells with 16.27% efficiency

(2019) Qiaoshi An et al.   Science Bulletin

Achieving Thickness-Insensitive Morphology of the Photoactive Layer for Printable Organic Photovoltaic Cells via Side Chain Engineering in Nonfullerene Acceptors

(2019) Seongyu Lee et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Intrinsic measurements of exciton transport in photovoltaic cells

(2019) Tao Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

A 3-Fluoro-4-hexylthiophene-Based Wide Bandgap Donor Polymer for 10.9% Efficiency Eco-Friendly Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Jeong Eun Yu et al.   Small

Efficient Thick-Film Polymer Solar Cells with Enhanced Fill Factors via Increased Fullerene Loading

(2019) Chunhui Duan et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Hydrogen Bond Induced Green Solvent Processed High Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Good Tolerance on Film Thickness and Blend Ratios

(2019) Xiaoyang Du et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Medium‐Bandgap Conjugated Polymer Donors for Organic Photovoltaics

(2019) Liya Sun et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Recent Progress in Molecular Design of Fused Ring Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Somnath Dey   Small

Room Temperature Processed Highly Efficient Large‐Area Polymer Solar Cells Achieved with Molecular Engineering of Copolymers

(2019) Shafket Rasool et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Miscibility Tuning for Optimizing Phase Separation and Vertical Distribution toward Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Lifu Zhang et al.   Advanced Science

Nonfullerene All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Yong Huo et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Digital Inkjet Printing of High‐Efficiency Large‐Area Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Daniel Corzo et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

Over 16% efficiency organic photovoltaic cells enabled by a chlorinated acceptor with increased open-circuit voltages

(2019) Yong Cui et al.   Nature Communications

Ternary polymer solar cells with alloyed donor achieving 14.13% efficiency and 78.4% fill factor

(2019) Qiaoshi An et al.   Nano Energy

Eco‐Compatible Solvent‐Processed Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Over 16% Efficiency

(2019) Ling Hong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

17% Efficient Organic Solar Cells Based on Liquid Exfoliated WS 2 as a Replacement for PEDOT:PSS

(2019) Yuanbao Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A ternary organic solar cell with 300 nm thick active layer shows over 14% efficiency

(2019) Lijiao Ma et al.   Science China-Chemistry

13.9%‐Efficiency and Eco‐Friendly Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells Obtained by Balancing Molecular Weight and Solubility in Chlorinated Thiophene‐Based Polymer Backbones

(2019) Sung Jae Jeon et al.   Small

Donor Derivative Incorporation: An Effective Strategy toward High Performance All‐Small‐Molecule Ternary Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Hua Tang et al.   Advanced Science

Semitransparent polymer solar cells with 12.37% efficiency and 18.6% average visible transmittance

(2019) Zhenghao Hu et al.   Science Bulletin

13.7% Efficiency Small‐Molecule Solar Cells Enabled by a Combination of Material and Morphology Optimization

(2019) Qihui Yue et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency >16.5% Based on Two Compatible Nonfullerene Acceptors

(2019) Jiali Song et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Over 16.7% efficiency of ternary organic photovoltaics by employing extra PC71BM as morphology regulator

(2019) Jinhua Gao et al.   Science China-Chemistry

High Performance Thick‐Film Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 10% and Active Layer Thickness of 600 nm

(2019) Yamin Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Photomultiplication Type Broad Response Organic Photodetectors with One Absorber Layer and One Multiplication Layer

(2019) Zijin Zhao et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

PBDB-T and its derivatives: A family of polymer donors enables over 17% efficiency in organic photovoltaics

(2019) Zhong Zheng et al.   Materials Today

Alkali Salt-Doped Highly Transparent and Thickness-Insensitive Electron-Transport Layer for High-Performance Polymer Solar Cell

(2018) Rongguo Xu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Aggregation Strength Tuning in Difluorobenzoxadiazole-Based Polymeric Semiconductors for High-Performance Thick-Film Polymer Solar Cells

(2018) Peng Chen et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

High-Performance Semitransparent Ternary Organic Solar Cells

(2018) Yuanpeng Xie et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ternary Blend Strategy for Achieving High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells with Nonfullerene Acceptors Involved

(2018) Xiaoyu Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Recent Advances in Morphology Optimization for Organic Photovoltaics

(2018) Hansol Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Highly Efficient Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cell with a Fill Factor over 0.80 Enabled by a Fine-Tuned Hole-Transporting Layer

(2018) Zhong Zheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High-Performance Organic Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells Based on Multiple-Donor or Multiple-Acceptor Components

(2018) Wenchao Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Asymmetrical Ladder-Type Donor-Induced Polar Small Molecule Acceptor to Promote Fill Factors Approaching 77% for High-Performance Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells

(2018) Wei Gao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Over 14% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by a Chlorinated Polymer Donor

(2018) Shaoqing Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells

(2018) Andrew Wadsworth et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Modulating Molecular Orientation Enables Efficient Nonfullerene Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells

(2018) Liyan Yang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Effect of Active Layer Thickness on the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells Based on a Highly Efficient Donor Material of PTB7-Th

(2018) Yue Zang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

(2018) Pei Cheng et al.   Nature Photonics

Fundamentals of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells: An overview of stability/degradation issues and strategies for improvement

(2018) Saqib Rafique et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Synergistic effect of fluorination on both donor and acceptor materials for high performance non-fullerene polymer solar cells with 13.5% efficiency

(2018) Qunping Fan et al.   Science China-Chemistry

A low cost and high performance polymer donor material for polymer solar cells

(2018) Chenkai Sun et al.   Nature Communications

Morphology Control in Organic Solar Cells

(2018) Fuwen Zhao et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Overcoming Space-Charge Effect for Efficient Thick-Film Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2018) Guichuan Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Side-Chain Impact on Molecular Orientation of Organic Semiconductor Acceptors: High Performance Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Active Layer over 400 nm

(2018) Zhenghui Luo et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High-Performance Thick-Film All-Polymer Solar Cells Created Via Ternary Blending of a Novel Wide-Bandgap Electron-Donating Copolymer

(2018) Baobing Fan et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A Halogenation Strategy for over 12% Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2018) Yanbo Wang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A Thieno[3,2-c]Isoquinolin-5(4H)-One Building Block for Efficient Thick-Film Solar Cells

(2018) Dan Li et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Nonfullerene Small-Molecule Acceptors with Perpendicular Side-Chains for Fullerene-Free Solar Cells

(2018) Fugang Shen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Energy level modulation of non-fullerene acceptors enables efficient organic solar cells with small energy loss

(2018) Qiaoshi An et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

High-efficiency and air stable fullerene-free ternary organic solar cells

(2018) Qiaoshi An et al.   Nano Energy

Low temperature processed high-performance thick film ternary polymer solar cell with enhanced stability

(2018) Manjun Xiao et al.   Nano Energy

Ternary Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with a Power Conversion Efficiency of 11.6% by Inheriting the Advantages of Binary Cells

(2018) Zhenghao Hu et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Polymer Donors for High-performance Non-fullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2018) Yanming Sun et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Hot slot die coating for additive-free fabrication of high performance roll-to-roll processed polymer solar cells

(2018) Seyeong Song et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Use of two structurally similar small molecular acceptors enabling ternary organic solar cells with high efficiencies and fill factors

(2018) Tao Liu et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Functionalized Graphene Oxide Enables High-Performance Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cell with a Thick Active Layer

(2018) Cheng-Kun Lyu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Efficient Non-Fullerene Organic Photovoltaic Modules Incorporating As-Cast and Thickness-Insensitive Photoactive Layers

(2018) Tong Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Over 13% Efficiency Ternary Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Tilted Up Absorption Edge by Incorporating a Medium Bandgap Acceptor

(2018) Miao Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High-efficiency small-molecule ternary solar cells with a hierarchical morphology enabled by synergizing fullerene and non-fullerene acceptors

(2018) Zichun Zhou et al.   Nature Energy

Controlling Molecular Packing and Orientation via Constructing a Ladder-Type Electron Acceptor with Asymmetric Substituents for Thick-Film Nonfullerene Solar Cells

(2018) Shiyu Feng et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Large-Area Organic Solar Cells: Material Requirements, Modular Designs, and Printing Methods

(2018) Guodong Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organic Photovoltaics with Multiple Donor-Acceptor Pairs

(2018) Jungho Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Carbon-Oxygen-Bridged Ladder-Type Building Blocks for Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Acceptors

(2018) Zuo Xiao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Recent Progress on Photomultiplication Type Organic Photodetectors

(2018) Jianli Miao et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Recent progress on non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics

(2018) Hua Sun et al.   Materials Today

Overcoming efficiency and stability limits in water-processing nanoparticular organic photovoltaics by minimizing microstructure defects

(2018) Chen Xie et al.   Nature Communications

Selenopheno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Narrow-Bandgap Nonfullerene Acceptor Enabling 13.3% Efficiency for Organic Solar Cells with Thickness-Insensitive Feature

(2018) Jin-Liang Wang et al.   ACS Energy Letters

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

Highly crystalline low-bandgap polymer nanowires towards high-performance thick-film organic solar cells exceeding 10% power conversion efficiency

(2017) Jaewon Lee et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

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

(2017) Guichuan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Narrowband Photomultiplication Type Organic Photodetectors

(2017) Wenbin Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enhancing Performance of Large-Area Organic Solar Cells with Thick Film via Ternary Strategy

(2017) Jianqi Zhang et al.   Small

High-Performance and Uniform 1 cm2 Polymer Solar Cells with D1 -A-D2 -A-Type Random Terpolymers

(2017) Injeong Shin et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Ternary Organic Solar Cells with >11% Efficiency Incorporating Thick Photoactive Layer and Nonfullerene Small Molecule Acceptor

(2017) Tong Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Polymer/Small Molecule/Fullerene Based Ternary Solar Cells

(2017) Huan Li et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Thick Film Polymer Solar Cells Based on Naphtho[1,2-c :5,6-c ]bis[1,2,5]thiadiazole Conjugated Polymers with Efficiency over 11%

(2017) Yaocheng Jin et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Thiophene Rings Improve the Device Performance of Conjugated Polymers in Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Active Layers

(2017) Chunhui Duan et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Roll-to-Roll Printed Large-Area All-Polymer Solar Cells with 5% Efficiency Based on a Low Crystallinity Conjugated Polymer Blend

(2017) Xiaodan Gu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A regioregular conjugated polymer for high performance thick-film organic solar cells without processing additive

(2017) Hongliang Zhong et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Nematic liquid crystal materials as a morphology regulator for ternary small molecule solar cells with power conversion efficiency exceeding 10%

(2017) Miao Zhang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Low band gap conjugated polymers combining siloxane-terminated side chains and alkyl side chains: side-chain engineering achieving a large active layer processing window for PCE > 10% in polymer solar cells

(2017) Xuncheng Liu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Thick-Film High-Performance Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells Retaining 90% PCEs of the Optimized Thin Film Cells

(2017) Hang Yin et al.   Advanced Electronic Materials

Improving the Compatibility of Donor Polymers in Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells via Post-Additive Soaking Treatment

(2016) Xiaoyu Yang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Alloy Acceptor: Superior Alternative to PCBM toward Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Pei Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A New Nonfullerene Electron Acceptor with a Ladder Type Backbone for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Nailiang Qiu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Novel Naphtho[1,2-c:5,6-c′]Bis([1,2,5]Thiadiazole)-Based Narrow-Bandgap π-Conjugated Polymer with Power Conversion Efficiency Over 10%

(2016) Yaocheng Jin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Aqueous Solution Processed Photoconductive Cathode Interlayer for High Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Interlayer and Thick Active Layer

(2016) Li Nian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Synthesis of a 4,9-Didodecyl Angular-Shaped Naphthodiselenophene Building Block To Achieve High-Mobility Transistors

(2016) Che-En Tsai et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Non-fullerene polymer solar cells based on a selenophene-containing fused-ring acceptor with photovoltaic performance of 8.6%

(2016) Yongxi Li et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Fluorination-enabled optimal morphology leads to over 11% efficiency for inverted small-molecule organic solar cells

(2016) Dan Deng et al.   Nature Communications

Highly efficient ternary polymer solar cells by optimizing photon harvesting and charge carrier transport

(2016) Miao Zhang et al.   Nano Energy

Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

(2016) Jingbo Zhao et al.   Nature Energy

A Large-Bandgap Conjugated Polymer for Versatile Photovoltaic Applications with High Performance

(2015) Maojie Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Improving Solar Cell Efficiency through Hydrogen Bonding: A Method for Tuning Active Layer Morphology

(2015) Taner Aytun et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

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

(2014) Yuhang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Design, Application, and Morphology Study of a New Photovoltaic Polymer with Strong Aggregation in Solution State

(2012) Deping Qian et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Self-Assembly and Orientation of Hydrogen-Bonded Oligothiophene Polymorphs at Liquid–Membrane–Liquid Interfaces

(2011) Ian D. Tevis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY