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Harvesting the Full Potential of Photons with Organic Solar Cells

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Performance, morphology and photophysics of high open-circuit voltage, low band gap all-polymer solar cells

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High-efficiency non-fullerene organic solar cells enabled by a difluorobenzothiadiazole-based donor polymer combined with a properly matched small molecule acceptor

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Beyond Fullerenes: Designing Alternative Molecular Electron Acceptors for Solution-Processable Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics

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

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Non-Fullerene-Acceptor-Based Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 7%

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Efficient inverted polymer solar cells employing favourable molecular orientation

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High-efficiency polymer solar cells with small photon energy loss

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Molecular helices as electron acceptors in high-performance bulk heterojunction solar cells

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Disorder-Induced Open-Circuit Voltage Losses in Organic Solar Cells During Photoinduced Burn-In

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

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Quantifying Losses in Open-Circuit Voltage in Solution-Processable Solar Cells

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Azadipyrromethene-Based Zn(II) Complexes as Nonplanar Conjugated Electron Acceptors for Organic Photovoltaics

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Low Band-Gap Conjugated Polymers with Strong Interchain Aggregation and Very High Hole Mobility Towards Highly Efficient Thick-Film Polymer Solar Cells

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

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High Open Circuit Voltage in Regioregular Narrow Band Gap Polymer Solar Cells

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

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

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Semi-crystalline random conjugated copolymers with panchromatic absorption for highly efficient polymer solar cells

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Charge generation and transport in efficient organic bulk heterojunction solar cells with a perylene acceptor

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Broadband Ultrafast Photoluminescence Spectroscopy Resolves Charge Photogeneration via Delocalized Hot Excitons in Polymer:Fullerene Photovoltaic Blends

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

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Polymer solar cells with enhanced fill factors

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Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes

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Mechanism for Efficient Photoinduced Charge Separation at Disordered Organic Heterointerfaces

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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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Enhanced solar cell performance by replacing benzodithiophene with naphthodithiophene in diketopyrrolopyrrole-based copolymers

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Enhanced power-conversion efficiency in polymer solar cells using an inverted device structure

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Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis

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Enhance performance of organic solar cells based on an isoindigo-based copolymer by balancing absorption and miscibility of electron acceptor

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Entropy of Charge Separation in Organic Photovoltaic Cells: The Benefit of Higher Dimensionality

(2011) Brian A. Gregg   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

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

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Rylene and Related Diimides for Organic Electronics

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

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Electroluminescence from Charge Transfer States in Polymer Solar Cells

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On the origin of the open-circuit voltage of polymer–fullerene solar cells

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