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Consensus stability testing protocols for organic photovoltaic materials and devices
Matthew O. Reese,Suren A. Gevorgyan,Mikkel Jørgensen,Eva Bundgaard,Sarah Kurtz,David S. Ginley,Dana C. Olson,Matthew T. Lloyd,Pasquale Morvillo,Eugene A. Katz,Andreas Elschner,Olivier Haillant,Travis Currier,Vishal Shrotriya,Martin Hermenau,Moritz Riede,Kiril R. Kirov,Gregor Trimmel,Thomas Rath,Olle Inganäs,Fengling Zhang,Mattias Andersson,Kristofer Tvingstedt,Monica Lira-Cantu,Darin W. Laird,Christine McGuiness,Srinivas (Jimmy) Gowrisanker,Michael Pannone,Min Xiao,Jens Hauch,Roland Steim,Dean M. DeLongchamp,Roland Rösch,Harald Hoppe,Nieves Espinosa,Antonio Urbina,Gülsah Yaman-Uzunoglu,Jörg-Bernd Bonekamp,Albert J.J.M. van Breemen,Claudio Girotto,Eszter Voroshazi,Frederik C. Krebs +41 more
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Procedures for testing organic solar cell devices and modules with respect to stability and operational lifetime are described and generally agreed test conditions and practices are generally agreed to allow ready comparison between laboratories and to help improving the reliability of reported values.About:
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Trifluoro Alkyl Side Chains in the Non-fullerene Acceptors to Optimize the Phase Miscibility and Vertical Distribution of Organic Solar Cells
Tianli Zhang,Haopeng Chen,Chuanfu Li,Kun Lu,Liting Zhang,Ahmadi Shokrieh,Jian Zhang,Guanghao Lu,Shengbin Lei,Zhixiang Wei +9 more
TL;DR: The Y-series non-fullerene acceptors have made a crucial breakthrough in high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs), but the morphology optimization of the active layer is still challenging as mentioned in this paper .
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Improving the photostability of printed organic photovoltaics through luminescent solar concentrators
TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of the luminophore concentration and waveguide surface roughness on the power conversion efficiency of large-area printed organic photovoltaics (OPVs) through luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs), which convert high-energy short-wavelength (λ ǫ 600nm) photons, were investigated.
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Crystallization driven boost in fill factor and stability in additive-free organic solar cells.
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic comparison of different post-processing treatments including thermal annealing (TA), vacuum drying (VD) and solvent vapor annesaling (SVA) on the TPD-3F polymer and IT-4F non-fullerene acceptor, comparing their effects on device performance as well as on the morphology and optical and electrical properties is presented.
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Unraveling the unstable amorphous phase evolution effect on burn-in loss in polymer-fullerene solar cells
Xiao-Yu Yang,Meng-Si Niu,Chaochao Qin,Pengqing Bi,Zhihao Chen,Lin Feng,Jianqiang Liu,Xiaotao Hao,Xiaotao Hao +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering and photophysical process experiments was used to demonstrate that burn-in loss is caused by the presence of thermodynamically unstable mixed-amorphous phase in the active layer.
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Investigation of the power generation of organic photovoltaic modules connected to the power grid for more than three years
Ritsuko Sato,Ritsuko Sato,Yasuo Chiba,Masayuki Chikamatsu,Yuji Yoshida,Tetsuya Taima,Tetsuya Taima,Makoto Kasu,Makoto Kasu,Atsushi Masuda,Atsushi Masuda +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the output power degradation of commercial organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules installed outdoors at the Kyushu Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology for more than three years was investigated.
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