Enhancing the efficiency of non-fullerene organic solar cells by using a volatilizable solid additive system

Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

The morphology of the active layer mostly affects photovoltaic efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs).

Язык: Английский

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An Overview of Materials Used in Solar and Wind Power Technologies

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 6, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Enhanced stability of perovskite solar cells using N-[(3-dimethylamino) propyl] methacrylamide as an ionic additive

Journal of Applied Physics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 137(16)

Опубликована: Апрель 22, 2025

Recent advancements in perovskite-type hybrid solar cells (PSCs) have driven significant interest due to their promising photovoltaic properties and potential replace conventional silicon-based cells. In this work, we explore the use of N-[(3-dimethylamino) propyl] methacrylamide as an ionic additive MAPbI3 PSCs with structure fluorine-doped tin oxide/TiO2/perovskite/spiro-OMeTAD/Ag. This aims enhance device stability by reducing surface defects mitigating degradation under environmental conditions. Structural characterization through x-ray diffraction photoelectron spectroscopy demonstrates that incorporation improves moisture resistance structural integrity perovskite layer. Devices containing exhibit reduced formation PbI2, even after prolonged exposure ambient conditions, significantly enhancing stability. These findings underscore role engineering passivating preserving performance. work highlights a practical approach improving durability cells, contributing advancement stable efficient next-generation technologies.

Язык: Английский

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Progress in organic solar cells: Materials, challenges, and novel strategies for niche applications

APL Energy, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 3(2)

Опубликована: Май 13, 2025

Organic solar cells (OSCs) are emerging as a viable alternative, and complementary niche of applications, to the conventional silicon-based photovoltaics due their unique attributes, including flexibility, lightweight, semitransparency, ease processing. Recent breakthroughs in non-fullerene acceptors advanced polymer donors have led power conversion efficiencies exceeding 20%, closing gap with traditional technologies. These advancements driven by innovations material design engineering, enhanced understanding device morphology, improvements fabrication architectures, well state-of-the-art characterization techniques. Despite these achievements, significant challenges remain, such improving long-term stability under environmental stress, upscaling OSCs from lab-scale devices large-area modules through printing technologies, achieving cost-effective scalability for mass production. This review also highlights OSCs’ transformative potential applications semi-transparent photovoltaic windows, flexible/wearable electronics, agricultural systems, paving way alternative sustainable multifunctional energy solutions.

Язык: Английский

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Impact of Different Aromatic Side Units on Benzodithiophene on the Optical, Electronic, and Photovoltaic Properties for Organic Solar Cell Applications

Synthetic Metals, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 117890 - 117890

Опубликована: Май 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Structural and physicochemical properties of azo based materials for organic solar cell application: A DFT approach

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 116526 - 116526

Опубликована: Май 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Progress on Phenanthroimidazole Derivatives for Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells: An Overview

Energies, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(13), С. 5194 - 5194

Опубликована: Июль 6, 2023

Phenanthroimidazole derivatives are currently frequently used chemical compounds in the active layers of various devices, such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) or electrochemical cells (LECs). Their advantages include simple and cheap synthesis, good solubility solvents, easy processing, high thermal stability, excellent electron transport ability, very optical electroluminescent properties. The construction LEC is based on a which layer plays significant role. Thus, it extremely important because they play role more than just emitters. This review summarizes current state art regarding phenanthroimidazole LECs. synthesis considered presented detail first part review. Next, research physicochemical properties presented. Finally, latest reports test devices

Язык: Английский

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Unveiling the impact of exchange-correlation functionals on the description of key electronic properties of non-fullerene acceptors in organic photovoltaics

The Journal of Chemical Physics, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 159(20)

Опубликована: Ноя. 28, 2023

Non-fullerene electron acceptors have emerged as promising alternatives to traditional electron-acceptors in the active layers of organic photovoltaics. This is due their tunable energy levels, optical response visible light spectrum, high mobility, and photochemical stability. In this study, electronic properties two representative non-fullerene acceptors, ITIC Y5, been calculated within framework density functional theory using a range hybrid non-hybrid functionals. Screened range-separated (SRSH) approaches were also tested. The results are analyzed previously reported experimental outcomes. Specifically, we oxidation reduction potentials, fundamental gaps, highest occupied molecular orbital lowest unoccupied energies, exciton binding energies. Additionally, investigated effects medium dielectric constant on these employing universal implicit solvent model. It was found that functionals generally perform poorly predicting while tend overestimate potentials. inclusion large Hartree-Fock contribution global or long identified source inaccuracy for many both redox potentials gaps. Corroborating with available literature, ∼50% all tested predicted very small ±0.1 eV, become even smaller by increasing material. Finally, OHSE2PBE tHCTHhyb optimal tuning SRSH approach best-performing methods, good accuracy description interest.

Язык: Английский

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Dibenzofulvene Derivatives as Promising Materials for Photovoltaic and Organic Electronics

Energies, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(24), С. 8027 - 8027

Опубликована: Дек. 12, 2023

This review aimed to summarize the current knowledge regarding dibenzofulvene derivatives (DBF) investigated for photovoltaics and organic electronics applications. The work begins with a detailed analysis of synthesis modification methods derivatives’ structure. Then, physicochemical properties (thermal, electrochemical, optical) selected compounds are discussed in detail. Moreover, this article also presents DFT calculations performed so far. Finally, latest research on applications as dyes DSSC cells, hole transport materials (HTMs) perovskite solar cells (PSCs), light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), luminescent electrochromic materials. Considering above, may be helpful when designing new photovoltaic electronic

Язык: Английский

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Development of a dual-axis solar tracker for efficient sun energy harvesting

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part E Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2024

Climate change, global warming, and rising fossil fuel pose significant challenges in present days across worldwide. To combat these issues, governments organizations are promoting renewable energy sources, such as solar power, which converts sunlight into electricity or thermal energy. In the current scenario, static-oriented Photovoltaic (PV) panels hampered by fluctuations sun's trajectory, leading to suboptimal conversion. address this manuscript proposes a low-cost prototype of two-axis tracker that integrates four optical sensor modules feedback sensors two direct geared motors maximize harvesting. Comparative analysis between fixed-oriented PV panel tracker, using conventional on–off artificial intelligence-based fuzzy logic control methods, verifies tracker's performance. The controller-based net gains approximately 14.2% more power than daily boasts an average tracking error 0.29°, indicating its reliability.

Язык: Английский

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