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Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core

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In this paper, a ladder-type electron-deficient core-based central fused ring (Dithienothiophen[3.2-b]- pyrrolobenzothiadiazole) with a benzothiadiadiazoles (BT) core was proposed to fine-tune its absorption and electron affinity.
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This article is published in Joule.The article was published on 2019-04-17 and is currently open access. It has received 3513 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organic solar cell & Acceptor.

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Understanding the High Performance of over 15% Efficiency in Single-Junction Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

TL;DR: The synergy of multifaceted characterization and device physics is used to uncover key insights, for the first time, on the structure-property relationships of this high-performing BHJ blend.
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Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells.

TL;DR: This work combines the advantages of the fibril network donor and the state of the art Y6 acceptor in a two-step approach to deliver a high efficiency of 16% without batch-to-batch variation.
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Controlling Molecular Mass of Low-Band-Gap Polymer Acceptors for High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells

TL;DR: In this article, a fused-aromatic-ring-constructed polymer acceptor PYT polymers with different molecular masses (PYTL, PYTM, and PYTH) were used to fine-tune the molecular crystallinity and miscibility.
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Random terpolymer based on thiophene-thiazolothiazole unit enabling efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells.

TL;DR: A donor polymer (named PM1) based on a random ternary polymerization strategy that enables highly efficient non-fullerene OSCs with efficiencies reaching 17.6% is reported, and exhibits excellent batch-to-batch reproducibility.
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Polymer photovoltaic cells : enhanced efficiencies via a network of internal donor-acceptor heterojunctions

TL;DR: In this paper, the carrier collection efficiency and energy conversion efficiency of polymer photovoltaic cells were improved by blending of the semiconducting polymer with C60 or its functionalized derivatives.
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Long-range corrected hybrid density functionals with damped atom–atom dispersion corrections

TL;DR: The re-optimization of a recently proposed long-range corrected hybrid density functional, omegaB97X-D, to include empirical atom-atom dispersion corrections yields satisfactory accuracy for thermochemistry, kinetics, and non-covalent interactions.
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Long-Range Corrected Hybrid Density Functionals with Damped Atom-Atom Dispersion Corrections

TL;DR: Chai and Head-Gordon as discussed by the authors proposed a long-range corrected (LC) hybrid density functional with Damped Atom-Atom Dispersion corrections, which is called ωB97X-D.
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Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100

TL;DR: In this paper, a polymer solar cell based on a bulk hetereojunction design with an internal quantum efficiency of over 90% across the visible spectrum (425 nm to 575 nm) is reported.
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Polymer–Fullerene Composite Solar Cells

TL;DR: Polymer-based organic photovoltaic systems hold the promise for a cost-effective, lightweight solar energy conversion platform, which could benefit from simple solution processing of the active layer.
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