Organic solar cells (OSC) based on organic semiconductor materials that convert solar energy into electric energy have been constantly developing at present, and also an effective way to solve …
Nowadays, silicon solar cells still dominate the market, but there are also some new types of solar cells. Among them, organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted much attention due to their merits of low cost, light weight and excellent mechanical flexibility. 1–3 Conventional OSCs usually use fullerene derivatives as electron acceptors, but ...
where η is efficiency, P max is maximum power supplied to the solar cell, E is the input light, or irradiance, and A is the surface area of the solar cell. Solar cell efficiencies have been documented and published in a graph format by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL). The new maximum efficiency for organic solar cells was found ...
Organic solar cells as low-cost, flexible, and echo-friendly photovoltaics are usable in large-area and wearable applications. ... Owing to features as high electron mobility, good solubility in organic solvent, and the potential to pair with different donors, fullerene acceptors were primary choice for a long time. However, rigidity, thermal ...
Organic solar cells (OSCs) are the emerging photovoltaic devices in the third-generation solar cell technologies and utilized the conductive organic polymers or small organic molecules for absorption of light in the broad region of the solar spectrum and for charge transportation purpose. It has attracted enormous attention due to their easy fabrication …
All-small-molecule organic solar cells with over 14% ...
In recent years, carbon-based materials, particularly carbon nanotubes (CNTs), have gained intensive research attention in the fabrication of organic solar cells (OSCs) due to their outstanding physicochemical properties, low-cost, environmental friendliness and the natural abundance of carbon.
The importance of ohmic contacts for organic solar cells has been recognized, but how the transition to ohmic behavior occurs is unknown. Tan et al. show that this transition happens  ...
Ultra-flexible semitransparent organic photovoltaics
Uncovering the out-of-plane nanomorphology of organic ...
The (010) π-π stacking peak in the OOP direction of the blend film processed with XY/additive was more obvious than that in the IP direction, and the blend film processed with XY/PN showed a more ordered π-π stacking. ... High performance opaque and semi-transparent organic solar cells with good tolerance to film thickness …
In this work, we systematically investigated deposition of PC 71 BM in various second solvents (orthodichlorobenzene, chlorobenzene, chloroform, and o-xylene) on top of a narrow bandgap polymer donor PffBT-3 film (Fig. 1).The film morphology and device performance vary widely with the solvent used for depositing PC 71 BM. As a …
However, organic solar cells currently have lower efficiency rates and shorter lifetimes compared to traditional inorganic cells. Despite these limitations, research and development in the field of …
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have been developed for few decades since the preparation of the first photovoltaic device, and the record power conversion efficiency …
This Review summarizes the types of materials used in the photoactive layer of solution-processed organic solar cells, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of combinations of different...
In recent years, organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained wide attention on account of being lightweight, solution-processable, and ensuring low-cost large-area and semitransparent flexible thin ...
The core fluorination enables adjustable molecular polarizability, downshifted energy level, blue-shifted absorption, enhanced crystallinity, and superior exciton diffusion length of acceptors. A superior PCE of 19.7% was achieved from the acceptor AQx-2F, which is the highest value in binary organic solar cells.
a, Solar cell stack of a perovskite–organic tandem solar cell with a p–i–n architecture (left) with a zoom in (right) on the interconnect between the electron extraction layer (EEL) of the ...
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18%, demonstrating a great practical application prospect. The development of material science including conjugated polymer donors, oligomer-like organic molecule donors, …
Organic semiconductors offer the advantage of high optical absorption and tunable energy levels, enabling thin-film solar cells with high light-to-electron conversion …
Organic solar cells (OSC) based on organic semiconductor materials that convert solar energy into electric energy have been constantly developing at present, and also an effective way to solve the energy crisis and reduce carbon emissions. In the past several decades, efforts have been made to improve the power conversion efficiency …
Organic solar cells (OSCs), as a type of lightweight, flexible, and solution-processable photovoltaics, have shown promising prospects in integrating with wearable clothes, smart electronics and ...
Organic photovoltaics: the path to lightweight, flexible and ...
1. Introduction. Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted extensive attention due to their advantages of increasing power conversion efficiency (PCE), good processing performance, low cost, and mechanical flexibility, etc. (Wang et al., 2017, Xiong et al., 2019, Park et al., 2014, Li et al., 2015, Liu et al., 2020, Guo et al., 2014) Especially …
The high efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells (OSCs) normally require optimized morphology in their bulk heterojunction active layers. Herein, a small-molecule donor is designed...
The importance of ohmic contacts for organic solar cells has been recognized, but how the transition to ohmic behavior occurs is unknown. Tan et al. show that this transition happens  ...
Liquid crystals (LCs) have recently gained significant importance in organic photovoltaics (PVs). Power-conversion efficiency up to about 10% has reached in solar cells incorporating LCs. This ...
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, also known as organic solar cells, are a type of solar cell that converts sunlight into electricity using organic materials such as polymers and small molecules. 83,84 …
A highly flexible and durable transparent graphene electrode with thermal stability was developed via the direct integration of polyimide (PI) on graphene. Due to the high transparency of PI-integrated graphene electrode and intimate contact between graphene and PI substrate, high-efficiency flexible organic solar cell with a PCE of …
A new class of non-fullerene acceptor, Y6, by employing a ladder-type electron-deficient-core-based central fused ring with a benzothiadiazole core is reported. Organic photovoltaics made from Y6 in conventional and inverted architectures each exhibited a high efficiency of 15.7%, measured in two separate labs. Inverted device …
The active layer of solar cells contains the donor organic material and the acceptor organic material, used in a layer-by-layer fashion in bilayer heterojunction and are combined together in bulk heterojunction solar cells [30]. Light crosses from the transparent electrode followed by the hole transport layer to incorporate into the active layer.
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have shown great promise as low-cost photovoltaic devices for solar energy conversion over the past decade. ... The red and blue arrows represent the dipole direction of the ion-induced dipoles ... PCBM and to realize an Ohmic contact between the front and back cells for good charge extraction/recombination. 314 ...
Wide-bandgap polymer donors for non-fullerene organic solar cells. Jiamin Cao * a, Lifei Yi a, Lixiu Zhang c, Yingping Zou * b and Liming Ding * c a Key Laboratory of Theoretical Organic Chemistry and Functional …
Organic solar cells have emerged as promising alternatives to traditional inorganic solar cells due to their low cost, flexibility, and tunable properties. This mini …
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have been recognized to have tremendous potential as alternatives to their inorganic counterparts, …
This article reviews the rapid progress in the developments of inorganic and organic solar cells (SCs) such as silicon SCs, perovskite SCs, III-V SCs, quantum dot SCs, dye sensitized SCs, flexible SCs, thin film SCs and tandem SCs. ... good reliability and high PCE are the key advantages of back contacted solar cell design [10]. The material ...