A review of all-polymer solar cells

All polymer solar cells (APSCs) ... In this review, the functional layer materials that enabled the recent progress of efficient APSCs are outlined, including typical polymer donors, emerging polymer acceptors based on polymerizing small molecule acceptors strategy, interfacial materials as well as the rational design rules for corresponding ...

Recent Progress of All Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency Over 15%

All polymer solar cells (APSCs) ... In this review, the functional layer materials that enabled the recent progress of efficient APSCs are outlined, including typical polymer donors, emerging polymer acceptors based on polymerizing small molecule acceptors strategy, interfacial materials as well as the rational design rules for corresponding ...

Surpassing the 10% efficiency milestone for 1-cm 2 all-polymer solar cells

All-polymer solar cells based on absorption-complementary polymer donor and acceptor with high power conversion efficiency of 8.27%. Adv. Mater. 28, 1884–1890 (2016).

All‐Polymer Solar Cells with 17% Efficiency Enabled by the …

Recently, all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) have received increasing attention and made tremendous progress. However, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of all-PSCs still lags behind the polymer-donor-small-molecule-acceptor based organic solar cells, owing to the excessive phase separation with poor miscibility between polymer donor and acceptor.

Recent progress of PY-IT-based all-polymer solar cells

All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), with their specific merits of superior operation stability and remarkable mechanical flexibility, have made significant prog ... Therefore, it is of paramount importance to offer a …

Recent Progress in Organic Solar Cells: A Review on Materials …

By working with PM6, the PYT M-based all-polymer solar cell exhibited a remarkable PCE of 13.44% . By using a dodecyl group to replace the octyl group in PYT M, Jia et al. developed a polymeric acceptor, PJ1-H, all-polymer solar cell with a PCE of 14.4% that was realized by utilizing PBDB-T:PJ1-H as the active layer .

Organic Solar Cells: Recent Progress and Challenges

Here, we demonstrate efficient all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on a polymer acceptor named PFBDT-IDTIC. By combining PFBDT-IDTIC with a fluorinated donor polymer (PM6), a high power …

Polymer Solar Cells: Recent Approaches and Achievements

Polymersolar cells have gained wide interest in the past few years for their potential in the field of large-area and low-cost photovoltaic devices. Thanks to rather simple treatments developed in the new millennium, the morphology of polymer solar cells has been optimized at the nanoscale level, leading to high efficient charge-carrier photogeneration and …

Review Fabrication and processing of polymer solar cells: A review …

Polymer solar cells are reviewed in the context of the processing techniques leading to complete devices. A distinction is made between the film-forming techniques that are used currently such as spincoating, doctor blading and casting and the, from a processing point of view, more desirable film-forming techniques such as slot-die coating, gravure coating, knife …

Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells based on …

This review focuses on the concept of PSMA and provides a summary of the design criteria of PSMA materials as well as their structure-morphology-performance relationships. Furthermore, this review summarizes several strategies for modulating blend morphology, such as molecular weight control, polymer donor selection, and ternary strategy. …

All-Polymer Solar Cells: Recent Progress, Challenges, …

APSCs offer all: All-polymer solar cells have attracted great attention, owing to rational design, improved morphology, strong absorption, …

High Efficiency (15.8%) All-Polymer Solar Cells …

Despite the significant progresses made in all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) recently, the relatively low short-circuit current density (Jsc) and large energy loss are still quite difficult to overcome for further development. …

Planarized Polymer Acceptor Featuring High Electron Mobility for ...

Significant progress has been achieved for all-polymer solar cells (APSCs) in the last few years by the use of polymerized small molecular acceptors (PSMAs). Developing high electron mobility polymer acceptors has been considered a feasible solution to further improve the photovoltaic performance of APSCs and fabricate thick film devices, which contributed to …

Solution processing of polymer solar cells: towards ...

Roll-to-roll (R2R) production is essential for commercial mass production of organic photovoltaics, avoiding energy costs related to the inert atmosphere or vacuum steps. This work provides a complete review of various techniques and materials that have been used for the R2R production of bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells. Various fabrication …

Polymer solar cells

This Review covers the scientific origins and basic properties of polymer solar cell technology, material requirements and device operation mechanisms, while also providing a synopsis of...

Morphology control in high-efficiency all-polymer solar cells

Solar cells based on polymer donor: polymer acceptor blends, 6-8 also called all-polymer solar cells (All-PSCs), have exhibited great potentials in stretchable electronic applications in terms of morphological stability and mechanical stretchability. 9-11 Before 2014, the progress of All-PSCs was very sluggish, which was mainly limited by the ...

Status and prospects of ternary all-polymer organic solar cells

All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) exhibit tremendous potential in fields such as smart and wearable electronic devices due to the benefits of low-cost, flexibility and large-area processability. ... Ternary organic solar cells: a review of the role of the third element. Nano Energy, 94 (2022), 10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106915. Google Scholar [42]

Polymer Acceptors for High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells

Polymers for solar cells: This review summarizes high-performance polymer acceptors based on the recently developed electron-deficient building blocks, including bithiophene imide (BTI) derivatives, B←N-incorporated (hetero)arenes, cyano-functionalized (hetero)arenes, and fused-ring electron acceptors.Additionally, the single-component-based …

Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells …

This review summarizes important works that have contributed to the recent progress of rapid development in the high-performance PSMA-based all-PSCs, and the relationships between molecular structure, blend …

All‐Polymer Solar Cells: Recent Progress, Challenges, and …

The most efficient polymer solar cell (PSC) devices are based on the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) architecture, which features an interpenetrating network of contiguous hole- and electron …

Advances in polymerized small-molecule acceptors for improved ...

The development of polymer donors and the optimization of active layer morphology have led to significant improvements of PCE all-polymer solar cells based on N2200.

Polythiophene and its derivatives for all-polymer solar cells

All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), employing conjugated polymers for both polymer donors and acceptors within the active layer, offer numerous benefits, such as outstanding mechanical flexibility, device longevity, and suitability for roll-to-roll manufacturing processes. Recently, polymerized small molecul Journal of Materials Chemistry A Recent …

Recent Research Progress of n-Type Conjugated Polymer Acceptors and All ...

The active layer of all polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) is composed of a blend of a p-type conjugated polymer (p-CP) as donor and an n-type conjugated polymer (n-CP) as acceptor. All-PSCs possess the advantages of light weight, thin active layer, mechanical flexibility, low cost solution processing and high stability, but the power conversion efficiency …

Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells …

This review focuses on the concept of PSMA and provides a summary of the design criteria of PSMA materials as well as their structure-morphology-performance relationships. Furthermore, this review summarizes …

Polymer Acceptors for High-Performance All-Polymer …

Polymers for solar cells: This review summarizes high-performance polymer acceptors based on the recently developed electron-deficient building blocks, including bithiophene imide (BTI) derivatives, B←N …

All‐polymer solar cells with over 16% efficiency and enhanced …

N2200 was utilized as a polymer acceptor in PM6:PY-IT system and produced 16.04% power conversion efficiency for this typical all-polymer solar cell, by suitably working with 1-chloronaphthalene. Bes...

Recent advances in polymer structures for organic solar cells: A review

Furthermore, polymer solar cells are easier to process and can be manufactured on a large scale achieving high efficiencies and stability. This review aims to raise the state of the art about these solar cells, discourse their architectures, current developments on polymer structures, and most relevant challenges for OPV devices, as a search ...

Recent Advances in Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

Enhancement of All-Polymer Solar Cells by Addition of a Chlorinated Polymer and Formation of an Energy Cascade in a Nonhalogenated Solvent. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, 13 (49), 58754-58762.

Efficient and stable organic solar cells enabled by ...

OSCs based on polymer/polymer blends as photoactive layers (all-polymer solar cells, all-PSCs) exhibited higher morphological stability than other kinds of OSCs due to the strong interchain ...

Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Interface Engineering …

All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) are organic solar cells in which both the electron donor and the acceptor are polymers and are considered more promising in large-scale production. Thanks to the polymerizing small molecule acceptor strategy, the power conversion efficiency of all-PSCs has ushered in a leap in recent years. However, due to the electrical …

Large-area Flexible Organic Solar Cells: Printing Technologies …

Flexibility is the most prominent advantage of organic solar cells (OSCs) compared with traditional photovoltaic devices, showing an irreplaceable commercial potential. Currently, the maximum power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of single-junction OSCs have been over 19% and 16% upon rigid and flexible substrates, respectively, which meet the criteria for …

The Applications of Polymers in Solar Cells: A Review

The emerging dye-sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells, and organic solar cells have been regarded as promising photovoltaic technologies. The device structures and components of these solar cells are imperative to the device''s efficiency and stability. Polymers can be used to adjust the device components and structures of these solar cells …