Marcus Hole Transfer Governs Charge Generation and Device Operation in Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

Single-layered organic photovoltaics with double cascading charge transport pathways: 18% efficiencies

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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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Efficient Organic Solar Cell with 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology with Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties

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Charge Separation from an Intra-Moiety Intermediate State in the High-Performance PM6:Y6 Organic Photovoltaic Blend

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Exciton and Charge Carrier Dynamics in Highly Crystalline PTQ10:IDIC Organic Solar Cells

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Fine-Tuning Energy Levels via Asymmetric End Groups Enables Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 17%

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

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The role of exciton lifetime for charge generation in organic solar cells at negligible energy-level offsets

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Approaching 16% Efficiency in All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Ternary Strategy with a Highly Crystalline Acceptor

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Approaching 18% efficiency of ternary organic photovoltaics with wide bandgap polymer donor and well compatible Y6:Y6-1O as acceptor

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Spectroscopic Investigation of the Effect of Microstructure and Energetic Offset on the Nature of Interfacial Charge Transfer States in Polymer: Fullerene Blends

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

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Fused Benzothiadiazole: A Building Block for n‐Type Organic Acceptor to Achieve High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells

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

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Rationally pairing photoactive materials for high-performance polymer solar cells with efficiency of 16.53%

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Charge-transfer electronic states in organic solar cells

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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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Photophysics, morphology and device performances correlation on non-fullerene acceptor based binary and ternary solar cells

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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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Design of a New Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor with Excellent Compatibility to Wide-Bandgap Polymer Donors for High-Performance Organic Photovoltaics

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

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

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Revealing the effects of molecular packing on the performances of polymer solar cells based on A–D–C–D–A type non-fullerene acceptors

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Regulating the vertical phase distribution by fullerene-derivative in high performance ternary organic solar cells

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Unexpectedly Slow Yet Efficient Picosecond to Nanosecond Photoinduced Hole-Transfer Occurs in a Polymer/Nonfullerene Acceptor Organic Photovoltaic Blend

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

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Charge Generation and Recombination in an Organic Solar Cell with Low Energetic Offsets

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Ultrafast direct electron transfer at organic semiconductor and metal interfaces

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

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Interfacial Charge Transfer States in Condensed Phase Systems

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

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What Controls the Rate of Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Charge Separation Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaic Blends

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11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substituted 2D-conjugated polymer as donor

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

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

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An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

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

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High-efficiency polymer solar cells with small photon energy loss

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How to Draw Energy Level Diagrams in Excitonic Solar Cells

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Coherent ultrafast charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic blend

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Photoinduced Hole Transfer Becomes Suppressed with Diminished Driving Force in Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells While Electron Transfer Remains Active

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Quantification of Quantum Efficiency and Energy Losses in Low Bandgap Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage

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Modulating dye E(S+/S*) with efficient heterocyclic nitrogen containing acceptors for DSCs

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

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Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Large Open-Circuit Voltage: Electron Transfer with Small Donor-Acceptor Energy Offset

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Real-Time Observation of Poly(3-alkylthiophene) Crystallization and Correlation with Transient Optoelectronic Properties

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A consistent and accurate ab initio parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu

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Charge-Transfer Excitons at Organic Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces

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