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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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Asymmetric Glycolated Substitution for Enhanced Permittivity and Ecocompatibility of High-Performance Photovoltaic Electron Acceptor.

TL;DR: A fused-ring electron acceptor named Y6-4O is designed and synthesized through introducing an asymmetric highly polarizable oligo(ethylene glycol) side chain onto the pyrrole unit of Y6, showing a notably higher εr value and better solubility in nonhalogen solvents.
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A chlorinated non-fullerene acceptor for efficient polymer solar cells

TL;DR: In this article, a new narrow bandgap chlorinated non-fullerene electron acceptor (Y15), based on benzo[d][1,2,3] triazole with two 3undecyl-thieno[2′,3′:4,5] thieno fused -7-heterocyclic ring, with absorption edge extending to the near-infrared (NIR) region, was designed and synthesized Its electrochemical and optoelectronic properties are systematically investigated.
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Molecular Lock Induced by Chloroplatinic Acid Doping of PEDOT:PSS for High-Performance Organic Photovoltaics.

TL;DR: A feasible way to boost the device performance by reinforcing the interfacial interaction between the HTL and photoactive layer is provided by doping chloroplatinic acid into poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiphene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS).
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End-capped group modification on cyclopentadithiophene based non-fullerene small molecule acceptors for efficient organic solar cells; a DFT approach.

TL;DR: In this article , a comprehensive density functional theory (DFT) analysis was done by employing B3LYP functional with 6-31G(d,p) basis set to study optoelectronic properties of R as well as M1-M4 molecules, while the time-dependent self-consistent field (TDSCF) was utilized to analyze their excited state calculations.
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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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