A Layer-by-Layer Architecture for Printable Organic Solar Cells Overcoming the Scaling Lag of Module Efficiency. Author links open overlay panel Rui Sun 1, Qiang Wu 1, Jie Guo 1, Tao Wang 1, Yao Wu 1, Beibei Qiu 2, Zhenghui Luo 3, Wenyan Yang 1, Zhicheng Hu 4, Jing Guo 1, Mumin Shi 1, Chuluo Yang 3, Fei Huang 4, Yongfang Li 2, Jie Min 1 2 5 6 ...
A Layer-by-Layer Architecture for Printable Organic Solar Cells Overcoming the Scaling Lag of Module Efficiency. Author links open overlay panel Rui Sun 1, Qiang Wu 1, Jie Guo 1, Tao Wang 1, Yao Wu 1, Beibei Qiu 2, Zhenghui Luo 3, Wenyan Yang 1, Zhicheng Hu 4, Jing Guo 1, Mumin Shi 1, Chuluo Yang 3, Fei Huang 4, Yongfang Li 2, Jie Min 1 2 5 6 ...
Organic solar cells are fabricated in multiple layers. Active or photovoltaic layer, electrodes, and middle layers. The active one is a photo-absorbing layer sandwiched between two electrodes. Middle layers are interfacial ones that make the charge transfer more efficient. To collect the photo-generated holes, the conventional structure of OSCs ...
Current high-efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs) are generally fabricated in an inert atmosphere that limits their real-world scalable manufacturing, while the efficiencies of air-processed OSCs lag far behind. The impacts of ambient factors on solar cell fabrication remain unclear. In this work, the effects of ambient factors on cell ...
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are an emerging solar cell technology that is cost-effective 1,2,3, lightweight 4,5 and flexible 4,6,7,8.Moreover, owing to their energy-efficient production and non ...
Degradation of the kinetically trapped bulk heterojunction film morphology in organic solar cells (OSCs) remains a grand challenge for their practical application. Herein, we demonstrate highly ...
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 (PCE) of OSCs.
Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on polymer donor and non-fullerene acceptor achieve power conversion efficiency (PCE) more than 19% but their poor absorption below 550 nm restricts the harvesting of high-energy photons. In contrast, wide bandgap all-inorganic perovskites limit the absorption of low-energy photons and cause serious below ...
An organic solar cell (OSC [1]) or plastic solar cell is a type of photovoltaic that uses organic electronics, a branch of electronics that deals with conductive organic polymers or small organic molecules, [2] for light absorption and charge transport to produce electricity from sunlight by the photovoltaic effect.
In the recent years, solar cells play an important role in meeting the global energy and environment challenges as a clean and sustainable source of energy [].The first generation of solar technologies is wafer-size single-junction solar cells based on crystalline silicon that are assembled into large area modules [].However, the electricity generated by …
Contents Quickstart Video Cleaning Spin Coating the Charge Transport & Active Layers Evaporating the Electrode Encapsulation Testing Quickstart Video This quickstart video guide demonstrates all the processes and steps required to fabricate organic photovoltaic (solar cell) and organic light emitting diode devices.
1 Introduction. Since the development of nonfullerene acceptors, organic solar cells (OSCs) have made strides toward reaching to 20% power conversion efficiency (PCE) in just a few years. [] Their potential in applications such as the Internet of Things, [] building integrated photovoltaics, [] and agrivoltaics, [] has pushed researchers to make significant progress in terms of …
2 · Layer-by-layer (LbL) solution processing is an efficient method to realize high performance organic solar cells (OSCs). One of the drawbacks of the LbL-processed active …
In this work, doctor-blading was applied for fabricating organic solar cells (OSCs) using a polyoxometalates material phosphomolybdic acid (PMA) as a hole transport layer (HTL). Compared to PEDOT:PSS, PMA-based devices demonstrate lower trap-assisted recombination, higher hole mobility, prolonged charge carrier lifetime and faster charge ...
Due to the characteristics of lower material waste, higher crystallinity, roll-to-roll compatibility, and high-throughput continuous processing, blade-coating has been widely …
Introduction In 2019, the non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) Y6 blended with PM6 achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 15%. 1 In 2020 Y6 blended with an alternative polymer gave 17.6% certified efficiency. 2 With the PCE of NFA based organic photovoltaic devices reaching the performance level of first-generation polycrystalline silicon technologies, the feasibility of …
Organic solar cells have emerged as promising alternatives to traditional inorganic solar cells due to their low cost, flexibility, and tunable properties. This mini review …
Apart from the realization of high-throughput screening studies on performance and stability in organic solar cells, robotized laboratories are probing an increased niche of applications in the organic electronics community.
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 and ...
In organic solar cells, the charge-transfer (CT) electronic states that form at the interface between the electron-donor (D) and electron-acceptor (A) materials have a crucial role in exciton ...
Traditional crystalline solar cells are typically made of silicon. An organic solar cell uses carbon-based materials and organic electronics instead of silicon as a semiconductor to produce electricity from the sun. Organic cells …
Additive-assisted layer-by-layer deposition creates a bulk p-i-n structure and vertically segregated fibril network morphology in the active layer of organic solar cells. This morphology optimizes exciton and carrier diffusion, thereby reducing recombination losses. Additionally, the micron-scale wrinkle-patterned morphology enhances the light capture capability of the active layer. …
The discovery of novel high-performing materials such as non-fullerene acceptors and low band gap donor polymers underlines the steady increase of record efficiencies in organic solar cells …
High-speed deposition of organic solar cells is crucial to manufacturing, yet it remains a challenge. Now, Sun et al. show that layer-by-layer deposition holds potential for speeding up the ...
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 ...