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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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Terpolymer Strategy toward High-Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells: Integrating Symmetric Benzodithiophene and Asymmetrical Thieno[2,3-f]benzofuran Segments

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the rational selection of the third component to balance the miscibility of the first two components of a polysilicon solar cell, and proposed a terpolymer-based approach for the selection of a third component.
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Recent advances in high-performance organic solar cells enabled by acceptor–donor–acceptor–donor–acceptor (A–DA′D–A) type acceptors

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce key factors, including light absorption, energy levels, and morphology of the active layer, that affect the performance of organic solar cells and summarize the structure-property relationship from selected examples for future molecular design.
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Nonradiative Triplet Loss Suppressed in Organic Photovoltaic Blends with Fluoridated Nonfullerene Acceptors.

TL;DR: The mechanism responsible for the improved photocurrent generation in the OPV blends with fluorinated NFAs is explained, suggesting that manipulating the energy landscape of triplet excited states is a promising strategy for further optimizing OPV devices.
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High-efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells based on an organic molecule donor with an asymmetric thieno[2,3-f] benzofuran unit

TL;DR: In this article, two p-type small molecules BDTT-TR and TBFT-TR with benzo[1,2b′:4,5-b′]dithiophene (BDT) and thieno[2,3-f]benzofuran (TBF) as central core units are synthesized and used as donors in all-small-molecule organic solar cells (all-SMOSCs) with a narrow-bandgap small molecule Y6.
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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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