Versatile ternary organic solar cells: a critical review
Top Cited Papers
- 27 October 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Energy & Environmental Science
- Vol. 9 (2), 281-322
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ee02641e
Abstract
The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells has been constantly refreshed in the past ten years from 4% up to 11% due to the contribution from the chemists on novel materials and the physicists on device engineering. For practical applications, a single bulk heterojunction structure may be the best candidate due to the cell with a high PCE, easy fabrication and low cost. Recently, ternary solar cells have attracted much attention due to enhanced photon harvesting by using absorption spectral or energy level complementary materials as the second donor or acceptor based on a single bulk heterojunction structure. For better promoting the development of ternary solar cells, we summarize the recent progress of ternary solar cells and try our best to concise out the scientific issues in preparing high performance ternary solar cells.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61377029)
This publication has 216 references indexed in Scilit:
- Optimization and simplification of polymer–fullerene solar cells through polymer and active layer designPolymer, 2013
- Organic Solar Cells beyond One Pair of Donor–Acceptor: Ternary Blends and MoreThe Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2013
- A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiencyNature Communications, 2013
- Efficiency Enhancement of Organic Solar Cells by Using Shape‐Dependent Broadband Plasmonic Absorption in Metallic NanoparticlesAdvanced Functional Materials, 2013
- Origin of the Tunable Open-Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar CellsJournal of the American Chemical Society, 2013
- From Binary to Ternary Solvent: Morphology Fine‐tuning of D/A Blends in PDPP3T‐based Polymer Solar CellsAdvanced Materials, 2012
- Quantitative Determination of Organic Semiconductor Microstructure from the Molecular to Device ScaleChemical Reviews, 2012
- Performance Enhancement of the P3HT/PCBM Solar Cells through NIR Sensitization Using a Small‐Bandgap PolymerAdvanced Energy Materials, 2012
- Light-Harvesting Mechanism in Polymer/Fullerene/Dye Ternary Blends Studied by Transient Absorption SpectroscopyThe Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2011
- Morphological Stabilization by In Situ Polymerization of Fullerene Derivatives Leading to Efficient, Thermally Stable Organic PhotovoltaicsAdvanced Functional Materials, 2011