Revelation of Interfacial Energetics in Organic Multiheterojunctions

Locally resolved large scale phase separation in polymer:fullerene blends

(2016) Christian Kästner et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Quantitative evaluation of inhomogeneous device operation in thin film solar cells by luminescence imaging

(2015) Marco Seeland et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Do “Hot” Charge-Transfer Excitons Promote Free Carrier Generation in Organic Photovoltaics?

(2015) Guangjun Nan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Controlling Exciton Diffusion and Fullerene Distribution in Photovoltaic Blends by Side Chain Modification

(2015) Muhammad T. Sajjad et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The effect of charge transfer state on the open-circuit voltage of small-molecular organic photovoltaic devices: A comparison between the planar and bulk heterojunctions using electroluminescence characterization

(2015) Chih-Chien Lee et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Beyond Langevin Recombination: How Equilibrium Between Free Carriers and Charge Transfer States Determines the Open-Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells

(2015) Timothy M. Burke et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Polymer aggregation control in polymer–fullerene bulk heterojunctions adapted from solution

(2015) Christian Kästner et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Quantification of Nano- and Mesoscale Phase Separation and Relation to Donor and Acceptor Quantum Efficiency,Jsc, and FF in Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells

(2014) Wei Ma et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Phase Separation in Bulk Heterojunctions of Semiconducting Polymers and Fullerenes for Photovoltaics

(2014) Neil D. Treat et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Characterization of the Polymer Energy Landscape in Polymer:Fullerene Bulk Heterojunctions with Pure and Mixed Phases

(2014) Sean Sweetnam et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Unequal Partnership: Asymmetric Roles of Polymeric Donor and Fullerene Acceptor in Generating Free Charge

(2014) Brett M. Savoie et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The influence of molecular orientation on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2014) John R. Tumbleston et al.   Nature Photonics

Control of charge generation and recombination in ternary polymer/polymer:fullerene photovoltaic blends using amorphous and semi-crystalline copolymers as donors

(2014) Hannah Mangold et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

25th Anniversary Article: A Decade of Organic/Polymeric Photovoltaic Research

(2013) Letian Dou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Solar Cells: Re-evaluating the Role of Sterics and Electronic Coupling in Determining the Open-Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells (Adv. Mater. 42/2013)

(2013) Kenneth R. Graham et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

25th Anniversary Article: Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Understanding the Mechanism of Operation

(2013) Alan J. Heeger   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Controlling the Morphology and Performance of Bulk Heterojunctions in Solar Cells. Lessons Learned from the Benchmark Poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-Phenyl-C61-butyric Acid Methyl Ester System

(2013) Minh Trung Dang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Improved phase separation in polymer solar cells by solvent blending

(2013) Christian Kästner et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers

(2013) Rodrigo Noriega et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

(2013) Koen Vandewal et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Sub-bandgap absorption in organic solar cells: experiment and theory

(2013) Wichard J. D. Beenken et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Optimization and simplification of polymer–fullerene solar cells through polymer and active layer design

(2013) Petr P. Khlyabich et al.   POLYMER

Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes

(2013) S. Gelinas et al.   SCIENCE

Domain Purity, Miscibility, and Molecular Orientation at Donor/Acceptor Interfaces in High Performance Organic Solar Cells: Paths to Further Improvement

(2013) Wei Ma et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Improvement of photovoltaic performance by ternary blending of amorphous and semi-crystalline polymer analogues with PCBM

(2013) C. Kästner et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Mind the gap!

(2013) Jean-Luc Bredas   Materials Horizons

Formation of highly crystalline and texturized donor domains in DPP(TBFu)2:PC71BM SM-BHJ devices via solvent vapour annealing: implications for device function

(2012) Aurélien Viterisi et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Influence of a ternary donor material on the morphology of a P3HT:PCBM blend for organic photovoltaic devices

(2012) Florian Machui et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Morphology evaluation of a polymer–fullerene bulk heterojunction ensemble generated by the fullerene derivatization

(2012) Christian Kästner et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

On the Role of Single Regiodefects and Polydispersity in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene): Defect Distribution, Synthesis of Defect-Free Chains, and a Simple Model for the Determination of Crystallinity

(2012) Peter Kohn et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Compositional Dependence of the Open-Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Based on Two Donor Polymers

(2012) Petr P. Khlyabich et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photoinduced Charge Generation in a Molecular Bulk Heterojunction Material

(2012) Loren G. Kaake et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Pathways to a New Efficiency Regime for Organic Solar Cells

(2012) L. Jan Anton Koster et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Polymer Electronics, Quo Vadis?

(2012) Ryan C. Chiechi et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Efficient Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Tunable Open-Circuit Voltage

(2011) Petr P. Khlyabich et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Role of Structural Order and Excess Energy on Ultrafast Free Charge Generation in Hybrid Polythiophene/Si Photovoltaics Probed in Real Time by Near-Infrared Broadband Transient Absorption

(2011) Daniel Herrmann et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2011) Jenny Nelson   Materials Today

Binding energy of singlet excitons and charge transfer complexes in MDMO-PPV:PCBM solar cells

(2011) Julia Kern et al.   Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters

Recent progress in the morphology of bulk heterojunction photovoltaics

(2011) Michael A. Brady et al.   Soft Matter

Fullerenecrystallisation as a key driver of charge separation in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2011) Fiona C. Jamieson et al.   Chemical Science

Efficiency Enhancement of Polymer Solar Cells Based on Poly(3-hexylthiophene)/Indene-C70 Bisadduct via Methylthiophene Additive

(2011) Yeping Sun et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Effects of Thermal Annealing Upon the Morphology of Polymer-Fullerene Blends

(2010) Eric Verploegen et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Charge-Transfer States and Upper Limit of the Open-Circuit Voltage in Polymer:Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Koen Vandewal et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Solvent vapour annealing of organic thin films: controlling the self-assembly of functional systems across multiple length scales

(2010) Giovanna De Luca et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Surfactant additives for improved photovoltaic effect of polymer solar cells

(2010) Byoungchoo Park et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

On the Dissociation Efficiency of Charge Transfer Excitons and Frenkel Excitons in Organic Solar Cells: A Luminescence Quenching Study

(2010) Kristofer Tvingstedt et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Anthracene Based Conjugated Polymers: Correlation between π−π-Stacking Ability, Photophysical Properties, Charge Carrier Mobility, and Photovoltaic Performance

(2010) Daniel A. M. Egbe et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Relating the open-circuit voltage to interface molecular properties of donor:acceptor bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2010) Koen Vandewal et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Morphology Control in Solution-Processed Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cell Mixtures

(2009) Adam J. Moulé et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Charge Transfer Excitons in Polymer/Fullerene Blends: The Role of Morphology and Polymer Chain Conformation

(2009) Markus Hallermann et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Controlled solvent vapour annealing for polymer electronics

(2009) Sven Hüttner et al.   Soft Matter

The Relation Between Open‐Circuit Voltage and the Onset of Photocurrent Generation by Charge‐Transfer Absorption in Polymer : Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2008) Koen Vandewal et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration Dynamics in Ground-State Charge-Transfer Complexes Based on Conjugated Polymers

(2008) Artem A. Bakulin et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Photoinduced Carrier Generation in P3HT/PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Materials

(2008) In-Wook Hwang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Compositional and Electric Field Dependence of the Dissociation of Charge Transfer Excitons in Alternating Polyfluorene Copolymer/Fullerene Blends

(2008) Dirk Veldman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Morphology evolution via self-organization and lateral and vertical diffusion in polymer:fullerene solar cell blends

(2008) Mariano Campoy-Quiles et al.   NATURE MATERIALS