New Insights into the Correlation between Morphology, Excited State Dynamics, and Device Performance of Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells

The Novel Additive 1-Naphthalenethiol Opens a New Processing Route to Efficiency-Enhanced Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Hong-Jyun Jhuo et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Enhancement of Performance and Mechanism Studies of All-Solution Processed Small-Molecule based Solar Cells with an Inverted Structure

(2015) Guankui Long et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Close Look at Charge Generation in Polymer:Fullerene Blends with Microstructure Control

(2015) Mariateresa Scarongella et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct Correlation of Charge Transfer Absorption with Molecular Donor:Acceptor Interfacial Area via Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy

(2015) Ester Buchaca-Domingo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Series of Simple Oligomer-like Small Molecules Based on Oligothiophenes for Solution-Processed Solar Cells with High Efficiency

(2015) Bin Kan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Efficient inverted polymer solar cells employing favourable molecular orientation

(2015) Varun Vohra et al.   Nature Photonics

Single-junction polymer solar cells with high efficiency and photovoltage

(2015) Zhicai He et al.   Nature Photonics

Realizing over 10% efficiency in polymer solar cell by device optimization

(2015) Shaoqing Zhang et al.   Science China-Chemistry

A molecular nematic liquid crystalline material for high-performance organic photovoltaics

(2015) Kuan Sun 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

Effect of Thermal Annealing on Charge Transfer States and Charge Trapping in PCDTBT:PC70BM Solar Cells

(2015) Iordania Constantinou et al.   Advanced Electronic Materials

Molecular Design toward Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Polymers Based on Two-Dimensional Conjugated Benzodithiophene

(2014) Long Ye et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

The Active Layer Morphology of Organic Solar Cells Probed with Grazing Incidence Scattering Techniques

(2014) Peter Müller-Buschbaum   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Molecular Materials for Organic Photovoltaics: Small is Beautiful

(2014) Jean Roncali et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Morphology and Performance Relationships

(2014) Ye Huang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Impact of the Electron-Transport Layer on the Performance of Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells

(2014) Guankui Long et al.   ChemSusChem

Solution-processed bulk heterojunction solar cells based on a porphyrin small molecule with 7% power conversion efficiency

(2014) Hongmei Qin et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Relationship between Interchain Interaction, Exciton Delocalization, and Charge Separation in Low-Bandgap Copolymer Blends

(2014) Zhi Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells Based on Dialkylthiol-Substituted Benzodithiophene Unit with Efficiency near 10%

(2014) Bin Kan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Small molecule BHJ solar cells based on DPP(TBFu)2 and diphenylmethanofullerenes (DPM): linking morphology, transport, recombination and crystallinity

(2014) Daniel Fernández et al.   Nanoscale

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

(2014) Yuhang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Charge Carrier Dynamics of Polymer:Fullerene Blends: From Geminate to Non-Geminate Recombination

(2014) Dimali Amarasinghe Vithanage et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Interface Design to Improve the Performance and Stability of Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Conventional Solar Cells

(2014) Jie Min et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A Conclusive View on Charge Generation, Recombination, and Extraction in As-Prepared and Annealed P3HT:PCBM Blends: Combined Experimental and Simulation Work

(2014) Juliane Kniepert et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Complementary solvent additives tune the orientation of polymer lamellae, reduce the sizes of aggregated fullerene domains, and enhance the performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2014) Chih-Ming Liu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

High Performance Photovoltaic Applications Using Solution-Processed Small Molecules

(2013) Yongsheng Chen et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Design and Synthesis of Molecular Donors for Solution-Processed High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells

(2013) Jessica E. Coughlin et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Intensity Dependence of Current–Voltage Characteristics and Recombination in High-Efficiency Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Solar Cells

(2013) Aung Ko Ko Kyaw et al.   ACS Nano

Photovoltaic Function and Exciton/Charge Transfer Dynamics in a Highly Efficient Semiconducting Copolymer

(2013) Jodi M. Szarko et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Origin of Reduced Bimolecular Recombination in Blends of Conjugated Polymers and Fullerenes

(2013) D. H. K. Murthy et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Fullerene Derivative-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanofilm as the Cathode of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells with Low-Bandgap Polymer (PTB7-Th) for High Performance

(2013) Sih-Hao Liao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bi-hierarchical nanostructures of donor–acceptor copolymer and fullerene for high efficient bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2013) Hsueh-Chung Liao et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Universal Correlation between Fibril Width and Quantum Efficiency in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Polymer Solar Cells

(2013) Weiwei Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces

(2013) Koen Vandewal et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

(2013) Feng Liu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency

(2013) Jingbi You et al.   Nature Communications

Correlating Structure and Morphology to Device Performance of Molecular Organic Donor-Acceptor Photovoltaic Cells Based on Diindenoperylene (DIP) and C60

(2013) M. Gruber et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Solution-processed small-molecule solar cells: breaking the 10% power conversion efficiency

(2013) Yongsheng Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

Molecular Design of Photovoltaic Materials for Polymer Solar Cells: Toward Suitable Electronic Energy Levels and Broad Absorption

(2012) Yongfang Li   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Improved Performance of Molecular Bulk-Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells through Predictable Selection of Solvent Additives

(2012) Kenneth R. Graham et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Charge Density Dependent Nongeminate Recombination in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2012) Daniel Rauh et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Effects of Heteroatom Substitutions on the Crystal Structure, Film Formation, and Optoelectronic Properties of Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Materials

(2012) Jianhua Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Small Molecule Organic Semiconductors on the Move: Promises for Future Solar Energy Technology

(2012) Amaresh Mishra et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

(2012) Jonathan Rivnay et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

(2012) Yuze Lin et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Morphology characterization in organic and hybrid solar cells

(2012) Wei Chen et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

On the Field Dependence of Free Charge Carrier Generation and Recombination in Blends of PCPDTBT/PC70BM: Influence of Solvent Additives

(2012) Steve Albrecht et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Correlation of π-Conjugated Oligomer Structure with Film Morphology and Organic Solar Cell Performance

(2012) Roland Fitzner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Effect of Solvent Additives on Morphology and Excited-State Dynamics in PCPDTBT:PCBM Photovoltaic Blends

(2012) Fabian Etzold et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Rational Design of High Performance Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells

(2012) Huaxing Zhou et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Competition between Fullerene Aggregation and Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Crystallization upon Annealing of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2011) Wei-Ru Wu et al.   ACS Nano

Efficient Solution-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Antiparallel Supramolecular Arrangement of Dipolar Donor-Acceptor Dyes

(2011) Hannah Bürckstümmer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Transient Absorption Imaging of P3HT:PCBM Photovoltaic Blend: Evidence For Interfacial Charge Transfer State

(2011) Giulia Grancini et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

A Naphthodithiophene-Diketopyrrolopyrrole Donor Molecule for Efficient Solution-Processed Solar Cells

(2011) Stephen Loser et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Molecular Design and Ordering Effects in π-Functional Materials for Transistor and Solar Cell Applications

(2011) Pierre M. Beaujuge et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Solvent-Annealed Crystalline Squaraine: PC70BM (1:6) Solar Cells

(2011) Guodan Wei et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A New Class of Semiconducting Polymers for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Exceptionally High Performance

(2010) Yongye Liang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

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

Role of the Charge Transfer State in Organic Donor-Acceptor Solar Cells

(2010) Carsten Deibel et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Recombination Dynamics as a Key Determinant of Open Circuit Voltage in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: A Comparison of Four Different Donor Polymers

(2010) Andrea Maurano et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Small Molecule Solution-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells†

(2010) Bright Walker et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Processable Low-Bandgap Polymers for Photovoltaic Applications†

(2010) Pierre-Luc T. Boudreault et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Effect of Morphology on Ultrafast Free Carrier Generation in Polythiophene:Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Ian A. Howard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Charge Generation and Recombination Dynamics in Poly(3-hexylthiophene)/Fullerene Blend Films with Different Regioregularities and Morphologies

(2010) Jiamo Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Effect of Annealing on P3HT:PCBM Charge Transfer and Nanoscale Morphology Probed by Ultrafast Spectroscopy

(2010) R. Alex Marsh et al.   NANO LETTERS

A small/wide-angle X-ray scattering instrument for structural characterization of air–liquid interfaces, thin films and bulk specimens

(2009) U-Ser Jeng et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Long-range corrected hybrid density functionals with damped atom–atom dispersion corrections

(2008) Jeng-Da Chai et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS