Recent advances in hierarchical three-dimensional titanium dioxide nanotree arrays for high-performance solar cells

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (25) ◽  
pp. 12699-12717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu-Qiang Wu ◽  
Hao-Lin Feng ◽  
Hong-Yan Chen ◽  
Dai-Bin Kuang ◽  
Cheng-Yong Su

This review article highlights recent progress in three-dimensional hierarchical TiO2nanotree array-based high-performance solar cells.

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (23) ◽  
pp. 11462-11482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shida Yang ◽  
Weifei Fu ◽  
Zhongqiang Zhang ◽  
Hongzheng Chen ◽  
Chang-Zhi Li

In this review, we first highlighted recent progress in high-performance perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) with a discussion of the fabrication methods and PVSCs-based tandem solar cells. Furthermore, the stability issue of PVSCs and strategies to improve material and device stability have been discussed, and finally, a summary of the recent progress in lead-free perovskites has been presented.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (21) ◽  
pp. 10092-10109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu-Qiang Wu ◽  
Dehong Chen ◽  
Rachel A. Caruso ◽  
Yi-Bing Cheng

This review article highlights recent progress on the n-type material-based electron transporting layers for high-performance perovskite solar cells.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congcong Zhao ◽  
Jiuxing Wang ◽  
Xuanyi Zhao ◽  
Zhonglin Du ◽  
Renqiang Yang ◽  
...  

The past decade has seen a tremendous development of organic solar cells (OSCs). To date, the high-performance OSCs have boosted the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 17%, showing bright prospects...


2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 3857-3864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-Qing Pan ◽  
Shuang-Bao Li ◽  
Yong Wu ◽  
Ji Zhang ◽  
Hai-Bin Li ◽  
...  

DFT and TDDFT calculations were performed to search for high-performance non-fullerene organic acceptor materials in organic solar cells.


Coatings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Shin ◽  
Suk-Ho Choi

It is necessary to develop semitransparent photovoltaic cell for increasing the energy density from sunlight, useful for harvesting solar energy through the windows and roofs of buildings and vehicles. Current semitransparent photovoltaics are mostly based on Si, but it is difficult to adjust the color transmitted through Si cells intrinsically for enhancing the visual comfort for human. Recent intensive studies on translucent polymer- and perovskite-based photovoltaic cells offer considerable opportunities to escape from Si-oriented photovoltaics because their electrical and optical properties can be easily controlled by adjusting the material composition. Here, we review recent progress in materials fabrication, design of cell structure, and device engineering/characterization for high-performance/semitransparent organic and perovskite solar cells, and discuss major problems to overcome for commercialization of these solar cells.


2021 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Deng ◽  
Zhenkai Ji ◽  
Xiaopeng Xu ◽  
Liyang Yu ◽  
Qiang Peng

Background: Perylene diimide (PDI) is among the most investigated non-fullerene electron acceptor for organic solar cells (OSCs). Constructing PDI derivatives into three-dimensional propeller-like molecular structures is not only one of the viable routes to suppress the over aggregation tendency of the PDI chromophores, but also raises possibilities to tune and optimize the optoelectronic property of the molecules. Objective: In this work, we reported the design, synthesis, and characterization of three electron-accepting materials, namely BOZ-PDI, BTZ-PDI, and BIZ-PDI, each with three PDI arms linked to benzotrioxazole, benzotrithiazole, and benzotriimidazole based center cores, respectively. Method: The introduction of electron-withdrawing center cores with heteroatoms does not significantly complicate the synthesis of the acceptor molecules but drastically influences the energy levels of the propeller-like PDI derivatives. Result: The highest power conversion efficiency was obtained with benzoxazole-based BOZ-PDI reaching 7.70% for its higher photon absorption and charge transport ability. Conclusion: This work explores the utilization of electron-withdrawing cores with heteroatoms in the propeller-like PDI derivatives, which provides a handy tool to construct high-performance non-fullerene acceptor materials.


RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 6568-6575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengmeng Liu ◽  
Xiaohang Zhu ◽  
Tianye Ma ◽  
Congcong Zhang ◽  
Xiang Chen ◽  
...  

GA–TiO2 composites as a cathode material realize an excellent electrochemical performance in Li–S batteries.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 4988-5014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Wang ◽  
Zhi Bin Zhang ◽  
Shi Peng Zhong ◽  
Zhao Qiang Zheng ◽  
Ping Xu ◽  
...  

This review introduces recent advances in the materials, fabrication and application of pulsed-laser deposition for high performance photo-detectors from an overall perspective. Challenges and future development trends are also discussed.


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