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2D-Conjugated Benzodithiophene-Based Polymer Acceptor: Design, Synthesis, Nanomorphology, and Photovoltaic Performance

article by Long Ye et al published 23 September 2015 in Macromolecules

9.73% Efficiency Nonfullerene All Organic Small Molecule Solar Cells with Absorption-Complementary Donor and Acceptor

scientific article published on 21 March 2017

A Difluorobenzoxadiazole Building Block for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells.

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

A High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cell Enabled by the Strong Intramolecular Electron Push-Pull Effect of the Nonfullerene Acceptor

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

A Large-Bandgap Conjugated Polymer for Versatile Photovoltaic Applications with High Performance

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

A PCBM Electron Transport Layer Containing Small Amounts of Dual Polymer Additives that Enables Enhanced Perovskite Solar Cell Performance

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

A Vinylene-Bridged Perylenediimide-Based Polymeric Acceptor Enabling Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells Processed under Ambient Conditions.

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

A Wide Band Gap Polymer with a Deep Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Level Enables 14.2% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

A molecular interaction–diffusion framework for predicting organic solar cell stability

scientific article

A new bend-magnet beamline for scanning transmission X-ray microscopy at the Advanced Light Source.

scientific article

A polythiophene derivative with superior properties for practical application in polymer solar cells

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

A random donor polymer based on an asymmetric building block to tune the morphology of non-fullerene organic solar cells

scientific article published in 2017

A regioregular conjugated polymer for high performance thick-film organic solar cells without processing additive

A time-resolved millimeter wave conductivity (TR-mmWC) apparatus for charge dynamical properties of semiconductors

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Absolute Measurement of Domain Composition and Nanoscale Size Distribution Explains Performance in PTB7:PC71BM Solar Cells

article

Accurate and Facile Determination of the Index of Refraction of Organic Thin Films Near the Carbon1sAbsorption Edge

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Achieving Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with Improved Intermolecular Interaction and Open-Circuit Voltage.

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Additive-assisted supramolecular manipulation of polymer:fullerene blend phase morphologies and its influence on photophysical processes

Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells

scientific article

Alkyl Chain Regiochemistry of Benzotriazole-Based Donor Polymers Influencing Morphology and Performances of Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

An easy and effective method to modulate molecular energy level of the polymer based on benzodithiophene for the application in polymer solar cells.

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Aryl-Perfluoroaryl Interaction in Two-Dimensional Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites Boosts Stability and Photovoltaic Efficiency

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Attractive Migration and Coalescence: A Significant Process in the Coarsening ofTiSi2Islands on the Si(111) Surface

scientific article published on 04 April 2003

Carbon-13 labeling for quantitative analysis of molecular movement in heterogeneous organic materials using secondary ion mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 8 June 2007

Changes in thermodynamic interactions at highly immiscible polymer/polymer interfaces due to deuterium labeling

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Characterizing morphology in organic systems with resonant soft X-ray scattering

article

Charge Creation and Recombination in Multi-Length Scale Polymer:Fullerene BHJ Solar Cell Morphologies

Charge Generation and Mobility-Limited Performance of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with a Higher Adduct Fullerene

article

Charge Photogeneration in Organic Photovoltaics: Role of Hot versus Cold Charge-Transfer Excitons

Chemical contrast in X-ray microscopy and spatially resolved XANES spectroscopy of organic specimens

scientific article published on November 6, 1992

Color-neutral, semitransparent organic photovoltaics for power window applications

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Comparative Photovoltaic Study of Physical Blending of Two Donor–Acceptor Polymers with the Chemical Blending of the Respective Moieties

Comparing non-fullerene acceptors with fullerene in polymer solar cells: a case study with FTAZ and PyCNTAZ

article published in 2017

Competition between exceptionally long-range alkyl sidechain ordering and backbone ordering in semiconducting polymers and its impact on electronic and optoelectronic properties

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Competition between morphological attributes in the thermal annealing and additive processing of polymer solar cells

article

Conjugation-Curtailing of Benzodithionopyran-Cored Molecular Acceptor Enables Efficient Air-Processed Small Molecule Solar Cells

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Connecting Molecular Conformation to Aggregation in P3HT Using Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy

Control of Mesoscale Morphology and Photovoltaic Performance in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Small Band Gap Terpolymers

article published in 2016

Controlling Blend Morphology for Ultrahigh Current Density in Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells

article published in 2018

Controlling additive behavior to reveal an alternative morphology formation mechanism in polymer : fullerene bulk-heterojunctions

Controlling molecular weight of a high efficiency donor-acceptor conjugated polymer and understanding its significant impact on photovoltaic properties

scientific article published on 14 March 2014

Correlating the efficiency and nanomorphology of polymer blend solar cells utilizing resonant soft X-ray scattering

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

Coulomb Enhanced Charge Transport in Semicrystalline Polymer Semiconductors

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Crystallization of Sensitizers Controls Morphology and Performance in Si-/C-PCPDTBT-Sensitized P3HT:ICBA Ternary Blends

Defining the nanostructured morphology of triblock copolymers using resonant soft X-ray scattering

scientific article published on 9 August 2011

Design of a New Small-Molecule Electron Acceptor Enables Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with High Fill Factor

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Designing ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with reduced carrier recombination and a fill factor of 77%

Development of scanning X-ray microscopes for materials science spectromicroscopy at the Advanced Light Source

scientific article

Differences in NEXAFS of odd/even long chain n-alkane crystals

article published in 2013

Direct Imaging and Spectroscopic Characterization of Stimulus-Responsive Microgels

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Direct Optical Observation of Stimulated Emission from Hot Charge Transfer Excitons in Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

Disentangling the impact of side chains and fluorine substituents of conjugated donor polymers on the performance of photovoltaic blends

article

Domain Purity, Miscibility, and Molecular Orientation at Donor/Acceptor Interfaces in High Performance Organic Solar Cells: Paths to Further Improvement

article

Donor polymer fluorination doubles the efficiency in non-fullerene organic photovoltaics

scientific article published in 2017

Dramatic performance enhancement for large bandgap thick-film polymer solar cells introduced by a difluorinated donor unit

Efficient Charge Transfer and Fine-Tuned Energy Level Alignment in a THF-Processed Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cell with 11.3% Efficiency

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Efficient Energy Funneling in Quasi-2D Perovskites: From Light Emission to Lasing

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Efficient Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by a Novel Wide Bandgap Small Molecular Acceptor

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Efficient Thick-Film Polymer Solar Cells with Enhanced Fill Factors via Increased Fullerene Loading

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

article

Energy-Level Modulation of Small-Molecule Electron Acceptors to Achieve over 12% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

scientific article published on 8 September 2016

Engineering biodegradable polymer blends containing flame retardant-coated starch/nanoparticles

scholarly article by Seongchan Pack et al published September 2012 in Polymer

Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance by Modulating Surface Composition in Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Based on PBDTTT-C-T/PC71BM

article

Environmentally-friendly solvent processed fullerene-free organic solar cells enabled by screening halogen-free solvent additives

article

Evolution of Laterally Phase-Separated Polyfluorene Blend Morphology Studied by X-ray Spectromicroscopy

scientific article published on 12 May 2009

Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

article

First direct imaging of electrolyte-induced deswelling behavior of pH-responsive microgels in aqueous media using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy

scientific article published on March 2009

Flexible Inorganic Ferroelectric Thin Films for Nonvolatile Memory Devices

Fluorinated Polymer Yields High Organic Solar Cell Performance for a Wide Range of Morphologies

article

Fluorine substituents reduce charge recombination and drive structure and morphology development in polymer solar cells

scientific article

From Binary to Ternary Solvent: Morphology Fine-tuning of D/A Blends in PDPP3T-based Polymer Solar Cells

Fullerene-Dependent Miscibility in the Silole-Containing Copolymer PSBTBT-08

Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with Highly Reduced Bimolecular Recombination and Field-Independent Charge Carrier Generation

scientific article published on 4 August 2014

Gaining further insight into the effects of thermal annealing and solvent vapor annealing on time morphological development and degradation in small molecule solar cells

article

Growth of thermally stable crystalline C60 films on flat-lying copper phthalocyanine

High Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells with the Polymer Acceptor Synthesized via a Random Ternary Copolymerization Strategy

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

High Performance Organic Solar Cells Processed by Blade Coating in Air from a Benign Food Additive Solution

article

High efficiency and stability small molecule solar cells developed by bulk microstructure fine-tuning

High performance all-polymer solar cell via polymer side-chain engineering

scientific article

High-Efficiency All-Polymer Solar Cells Based on a Pair of Crystalline Low-Bandgap Polymers

High-Efficiency All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on an Organic Molecule Donor with Alkylsilyl-Thienyl Conjugated Side Chains

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells: Critical Factors that Affect Complex Multi-Length Scale Morphology and Device Performance

article

High-Performance Non-Fullerene Polymer Solar Cells Based on a Pair of Donor-Acceptor Materials with Complementary Absorption Properties

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

High-molecular-weight insulating polymers can improve the performance of molecular solar cells

scientific article

Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Improved Vertical Donor-Acceptor Compositional Gradient Via an Inverted Off-Center Spinning Method

scientific article published on 2 December 2015

Highly Efficient, Stable, and Ductile Ternary Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells from a Two-Donor Polymer Blend

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

High‐Performance Tandem Organic Solar Cells Using HSolar as the Interconnecting Layer

scientific article

Importance of 2D Conjugated Side Chains of Benzodithiophene-Based Polymers in Controlling Polymer Packing, Interfacial Ordering, and Composition Variations of All-Polymer Solar Cells

article

Importance of domain purity and molecular packing in efficient solution-processed small-molecule solar cells.

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Improved Performance of All-Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Naphthodiperylenetetraimide-Based Polymer Acceptor

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

Improved efficiency of bulk heterojunction poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester photovoltaic devices using discotic liquid crystal additives

article published in 2010

Influence of Annealing and Interfacial Roughness on the Performance of Bilayer Donor/Acceptor Polymer Photovoltaic Devices

Influence of Fluorination and Molecular Weight on the Morphology and Performance of PTB7:PC71BM Solar Cells

Influence of Processing Parameters and Molecular Weight on the Morphology and Properties of High-Performance PffBT4T-2OD:PC71BM Organic Solar Cells

article

Influence of Regio- and Chemoselectivity on the Properties of Fluoro-Substituted Thienothiophene and Benzodithiophene Copolymers

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Influence of fluorination on the properties and performance of isoindigo–quaterthiophene-based polymers

Influence of sample preparation and processing on observed glass transition temperatures of polymer nanocomposites

Integrated circuits based on conjugated polymer monolayer

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Interfaces in organic devices studied with resonant soft x-ray reflectivity

article

Interfacial Interactions in PP/MMT/SEBS Nanocomposites

Interfacial widths of conjugated polymer bilayers.

scientific article published in September 2009

Interferometer-controlled scanning transmission X-ray microscopes at the Advanced Light Source.

scientific article

Interplay of solvent additive concentration and active layer thickness on the performance of small molecule solar cells.

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Isomery-Dependent Miscibility Enables High-Performance All-Small-Molecule Solar Cells

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Long-Lived, Non-Geminate, Radiative Recombination of Photogenerated Charges in a Polymer/Small-Molecule Acceptor Photovoltaic Blend

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

Long-range exciton diffusion in molecular non-fullerene acceptors

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Manipulating aggregation and molecular orientation in all-polymer photovoltaic cells.

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Manipulation of Domain Purity and Orientational Ordering in High Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells

Miscibility, Crystallinity, and Phase Development in P3HT/PCBM Solar Cells: Toward an Enlightened Understanding of Device Morphology and Stability

article

Mobility-controlled performance of thick solar cells based on fluorinated copolymers

scientific article

Modifications in morphology resulting from nanoimprinting bulk heterojunction blends for light trapping organic solar cell designs

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Molecular Design toward Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with High Polymer Content

scientific article published on 28 May 2013

Molecular Miscibility of Polymer−Fullerene Blends

Morphological characterization of fullerene and fullerene-free organic photovoltaics by combined real and reciprocal space techniques

article

Morphological, Optical, and Electronic Consequences of Coexisting Crystal Orientations in β-Copper Phthalocyanine Thin Films

Morphological-Electrical Property Relation in Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 Solar Cells: Significance of Crystal Grain Growth and Band Grading by Potassium Treatment

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Morphology Changes Upon Scaling a High-Efficiency, Solution-Processed Solar Cell From Spin-Coating to Roll-to-Roll Coating

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

Morphology changes upon scaling a high-efficiency, solution-processed solar cell

Morphology control enables thickness-insensitive efficient nonfullerene polymer solar cells

Morphology linked to miscibility in highly amorphous semi-conducting polymer/fullerene blends

Multiple Cases of Efficient Nonfullerene Ternary Organic Solar Cells Enabled by an Effective Morphology Control Method

article published in 2017

NEXAFS imaging of synthetic organic materials

article

Nanomorphology of bulk heterojunction photovoltaic thin films probed with resonant soft X-ray scattering

scientific article published in August 2010

Near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure microscopy of organic and magnetic materials

scientific article published on April 2009

On the Efficiency of Charge Transfer State Splitting in Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells

article

On the role of intermixed phases in organic photovoltaic blends

article

Optimization of scanning transmission X-ray microscopy for the identification and quantitation of reinforcing particles in polyurethanes.

scientific article published in June 2001

Optimized active layer morphologies via ternary copolymerization of polymer donors for 17.6% efficiency organic solar cells with enhanced fill factor

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Organic Solar Cells: Domain Purity, Miscibility, and Molecular Orientation at Donor/Acceptor Interfaces in High Performance Organic Solar Cells: Paths to Further Improvement (Adv. Energy Mater. 7/2013)

article

Organic thermometry for chondritic parent bodies

Origins of polarization-dependent anisotropic X-ray scattering from organic thin films

scientific article published in January 2016

PDT-S-T: A New Polymer with Optimized Molecular Conformation for Controlled Aggregation andπ-πStacking and Its Application in Efficient Photovoltaic Devices

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Panchromatic Sequentially Cast Ternary Polymer Solar Cells.

scientific article published on 29 November 2016

Precise Manipulation of Multilength Scale Morphology and Its Influence on Eco-Friendly Printed All-Polymer Solar Cells

Probing the Chain and Crystal Lattice Orientation in Polyethylene Thin Films by Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) Spectroscopy

Quantification of nano- and mesoscale phase separation and relation to donor and acceptor quantum efficiency, J(sc), and FF in polymer:fullerene solar cells

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Quantifying Charge Extraction in Organic Solar Cells: The Case of Fluorinated PCPDTBT.

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Quantitative Morphology-Performance Correlations in Organic Solar Cells: Insights from Soft X-Ray Scattering

article

Quantitative compositional analysis of organic thin films using transmission NEXAFS spectroscopy in an X-ray microscope

article

Quantitative organic and light-element analysis of comet 81P/Wild 2 particles using C-, N-, and O-μ-XANES

scholarly article

Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Random Polymerization Strategy Leads to a Family of Donor Polymers Enabling Well-Controlled Morphology and Multiple Cases of High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Rigidifying Nonplanar Perylene Diimides by Ring Fusion Toward Geometry-Tunable Acceptors for High-Performance Fullerene-Free Solar Cells

scientific article published on 7 December 2015

Ring-Fusion of Perylene Diimide Acceptor Enabling Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Small Voltage Loss

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Role of Polymer Segregation on the Mechanical Behavior of All-Polymer Solar Cell Active Layers.

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Role of Solution Structure in Self-Assembly of Conjugated Block Copolymer Thin Films

Role of Solvent Trapping Effects in Determining the Structure and Morphology of Ternary Blend Organic Devices

scientific article published on 28 April 2009

Sequential Deposition of Organic Films with Eco-Compatible Solvents Improves Performance and Enables Over 12%-Efficiency Nonfullerene Solar Cells

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Shear-Enhanced Transfer Printing of Conducting Polymer Thin Films

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Side-chain engineering of perylenediimide-vinylene polymer acceptors for high-performance all-polymer solar cells

Significance of Average Domain Purity and Mixed Domains on the Photovoltaic Performance of High-Efficiency Solution-Processed Small-Molecule BHJ Solar Cells

Significant Influence of the Methoxyl Substitution Position on Optoelectronic Properties and Molecular Packing of Small-Molecule Electron Acceptors for Photovoltaic Cells

Soft X-ray characterisation of organic semiconductor films

article

Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis

scientific article

Strong polymer molecular weight-dependent material interactions: impact on the formation of the polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction morphology

Studying Polymer/Fullerene Intermixing and Miscibility in Laterally Patterned Films with X-Ray Spectromicroscopy

article published in 2012

Surpassing 10% Efficiency Benchmark for Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells by Scalable Coating in Air from Single Nonhalogenated Solvent

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Surprising Effects upon Inserting Benzene Units into a Quaterthiophene-Based D-A Polymer-Improving Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells via Donor Polymer Design

article

Synthesis of High-Crystallinity DPP Polymers with Balanced Electron and Hole Mobility

article

Synthesis, solid-state, and charge-transport properties of conjugated polythiophene-S,S-dioxides

Synthetic control over orientational degeneracy of spacer cations enhances solar cell efficiency in two-dimensional perovskites

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

The Critical Role of Materials' Interaction in Realizing Organic Field-effect Transistors via High Dilution Blending with Insulating Polymers

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

The Importance of Fullerene Percolation in the Mixed Regions of Polymer-Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

article

The Role of Demixing and Crystallization Kinetics on the Stability of Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

The Role of FRET in Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells: Implications for Molecular Design

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

The case for soft X-rays: Improved compositional contrast for structure and morphology determination with real and reciprocal space methods

article

The influence of molecular orientation on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

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The influence of spacer units on molecular properties and solar cell performance of non-fullerene acceptors

The performance-stability conundrum of BTP-based organic solar cells

scientific article published in 2021

The role of regioregularity, crystallinity, and chain orientation on electron transport in a high-mobility n-type copolymer

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Thermodynamic Properties and Molecular Packing Explain Performance and Processing Procedures of Three D18:NFA Organic Solar Cells

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Thin Films: Tuning Local Molecular Orientation-Composition Correlations in Binary Organic Thin Films by Solution Shearing (Adv. Funct. Mater. 21/2015)

article

Time-Dependent Morphology Evolution of Solution-Processed Small Molecule Solar Cells during Solvent Vapor Annealing

Topographic measurement of buried thin-film interfaces using a grazing resonant soft x-ray scattering technique

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 90 no. 24, December 2014

Toward Single-Crystal Hybrid-Carbon Electronics: Impact of Graphene Substrate Defect Density on Copper Phthalocyanine Film Growth

article published in 2014

Tuning Local Molecular Orientation-Composition Correlations in Binary Organic Thin Films by Solution Shearing

article

Tuning Open-Circuit Voltage in Organic Solar Cells with Molecular Orientation.

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Understanding the Morphology of PTB7:PCBM Blends in Organic Photovoltaics

article

Unveiling the operation mechanism of layered perovskite solar cells

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

X-ray Microscopy of Photovoltaic Polyfluorene Blends: Relating Nanomorphology to Device Performance

scientific article published in May 2007