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The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10 years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic …
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10 years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic …
In recent years, significant progress has been made in improving the performance and stability of organic solar cells, and there is ongoing research into new materials, device architectures, and manufacturing processes that could further enhance their efficiency and durability.
In addition to morphological control and stability enhancement, there are several other performance optimization strategies for organic solar cells that have been explored in the literature. These strategies include the use of new materials, the optimization of device architecture, and the development of new processing techniques.
Effective molecular design strategies for each type of OSC are discussed and promising research directions highlighted, particularly those relevant to facilitating the industrial manufacturing of OSCs. Advances in photoactive-layer materials have contributed to the increase in the performance of organic solar cells.
Overall, the future of organic solar cells looks promising, with ongoing research and development focused on improving their efficiency, stability, and sustainability. As these technologies continue to advance, they could become an important part of the global effort to transition to a more sustainable energy future.
For example, increasing the fill factor can be achieved by reducing the resistance of the solar cell, but this can also lead to an increase in the recombination rate of charge carriers, which can reduce the overall efficiency of the cell.
Improving the reproducibility of organic solar cells will require standardization of materials, device architectures, and testing methods. Addressing these challenges will require a multidisciplinary approach that brings together expertise in materials science, chemistry, physics, and engineering.
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10 years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic …
The ternary and additive strategy, introducing a third component into a binary blend and add suitable additives, opens a simple and promising avenue to improve the power …
This study aims to improve the performance of non-fullerene solar cells by utilizing the indacenodithiophene (IDT) molecule via density functional theory (DFT). This was achieved by …
2 · Nonfullerene acceptors are critical in advancing the performance of organic solar cells. However, unfavorable morphology and low photon-to-electron conversion in the acceptor …
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10 years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor and...
The performances of organic solar cells (attained a PCE of 18.2%) and various quantum dot cells (achieved an efficiency of 18.1%) with a low cost/watt balance are highly notable. In view of their advantages like potential wide-scale production and quick energy payback times, organic solar cells have received a lot of attention over the past two decades, indicating …
Benefiting from the innovations in molecular design and device engineering 1,2,3,4,5, organic solar cells (OSCs) have undergone a substantial progress in the past decade 6,7,8,9.However, their ...
The nanoscale fibrillar morphology of the photoactive layer is critical to improve performance of organic solar cells. Here, the authors incorporate thiophene terminal groups in the non-fullerene ...
The ternary and additive strategy, introducing a third component into a binary blend and add suitable additives, opens a simple and promising avenue to improve the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs). This study investigates the optimization of OSCs by introducing volatile additives and a third component, L8-BO-X ...
In this review, we introduce a state-of-art theoretical methodology of the synergy of high-throughput screening and machine learning (ML) in accelerating the discovery of high-efficient OSC materials.
1 · Bilayer organic solar cells, composed of a donor and acceptor layer, provide independent optimization of each layer to enhance the photovoltaic performance. However, the power …
For organic solar cells to be competitive, the light-absorbing molecules should simultaneously satisfy multiple key requirements, including weak-absorption charge transfer state, high dielectric ...
The paper indicates that OPV cells have the potential to revolutionize the solar energy industry due to their low production costs, and ability to produce thin, flexible solar cells. However, challenges such as lower efficiency, durability, and technological limitations still exist.
The paper indicates that OPV cells have the potential to revolutionize the solar energy industry due to their low production costs, and ability to produce thin, flexible solar …
1 · Bilayer organic solar cells, composed of a donor and acceptor layer, provide independent optimization of each layer to enhance the photovoltaic performance. However, the power conversion efficiency remains lower than that of bulk heterojunction cells. Herein, we focus on suppressing nongeminate charge recombination by tuning the acceptor layer''s morphology …
The large energy loss (E loss) is one of the main obstacles to further improve the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), which is closely related to the charge transfer (CT) state.Herein, ternary donor alloy strategy is used to precisely tune the energy of CT state (E CT) and thus the E loss for boosting the efficiency of OSCs.The elevated E CT in the ternary OSCs …
Organic photovoltaics have attracted considerable interest in recent years as viable alternatives to conventional silicon-based solar cells. The present study addressed the increasing demand for alternative energy sources amid greenhouse gas emissions and rising traditional energy costs.
Improving the photovoltaic performance directly by innovative device architectures contributes much progress in the field of organic solar cells. Photovoltaic device using different kinds of ...
Fan et al. report the introduction of a liquid crystal donor into a typical non-fullerene blending system to significantly improve their crystallinity and molecular ordering, enabling an efficient three-dimensional charge transport in the active layer and achieving a low upscaling fill factor loss of 7% in centimeter-scale organic solar cells.
Molecular engineering has emerged as a promising approach to improve the performance of organic solar cells by tailoring the properties of the organic materials. This …
2 · Nonfullerene acceptors are critical in advancing the performance of organic solar cells. However, unfavorable morphology and low photon-to-electron conversion in the acceptor range continue to limit the photocurrent generation and overall device performance. Herein, benzoic anhydride, a low-cost polar molecule with excellent synergistic ...
This study aims to improve the performance of non-fullerene solar cells by utilizing the indacenodithiophene (IDT) molecule via density functional theory (DFT). This was achieved by designing three novel molecules, which were generated by introducing diverse notable acceptor fragments into the IDT molecule, and spacer moieties were incorporated between the donor …
Thanks to the development of novel electron acceptor materials, the power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices are now approaching 20%. Further improvement of PCE is complicated by the need for a driving force to split strongly bound excitons into free charges, causing voltage losses.
Molecular engineering has emerged as a promising approach to improve the performance of organic solar cells by tailoring the properties of the organic materials. This strategy involves designing and synthesizing new molecules with specific molecular structures and energy levels to optimize the absorption, charge transfer, and transport ...
Thanks to the development of novel electron acceptor materials, the power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices are now approaching 20%. Further improvement of PCE is complicated by the need for …
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