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most citedTraps and transport resistance: the next frontier for stable state-of-the-art non-fullerene acceptor solar cells

81 citations · 212 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Mobility-lifetime relation links photodegradation in spin-coated and gravure-printed organic solar cells

Maria Saladina, Paul Weitz, David Holzner +24

The degradation mechanisms of organic solar cells (OSCs) have been studied primarily in spin-coated, laboratory-scale devices, whereas scalable processing modifies the device archi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Rethinking Charge Transport and Recombination in Donor-diluted Organic Solar Cells

Chen Wang, Christopher Wöpke, Toni Seiler +12

We systematically investigate PM6:Y12 bulk-heterojunction solar cells with donor fractions ranging from 1% to 45%, linking morphology, charge transport, and recombination to device…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Bridging the lab-to-fab gap in non-fullerene organic solar cells via gravure printing

Svitlana Taranenko, Chen Wang, David Holzner +10

Organic solar cells have reached record efficiencies with non-fullerene acceptors, yet their translation to industrial printing remains a critical bottleneck. Here we report the hi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

The contribution of electron and hole conductivity to the transport loss in organic solar cells

Chen Wang, Toni Seiler, Doyoung Sun +3

The effective conductivity determines the reciprocal of the transport resistance, the dominant loss of fill factor in organic solar cells. We experimentally determine the dependenc…

physics.app-ph2025

A Framework to Pinpoint Bottlenecks in Emerging Solar Cells and Disordered Devices via Differential Machine Learning

Cai Williams, Chen Wang, Alexander Ehm +4

A key challenge in the development of materials for the next generation of solar cells, sensors and transistors is linking macroscopic device performance to underlying microscopic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 27 cited

Transport resistance dominates the fill factor losses in record organic solar cells

Chen Wang, Roderick C. I. MacKenzie, Uli Würfel +4

Organic photovoltaics are a promising solar cell technology well-suited to mass production using roll-to-roll processes. The efficiency of lab-scale solar cells has exceeded 20% an…

physics.app-ph2022★ 19 cited

Power-law density of states in organic solar cells revealed by the open-circuit voltage dependence of the ideality factor

Maria Saladina, Christopher Wöpke, Clemens Göhler +9

The density of states (DOS) is fundamentally important for understanding physical processes in organic disordered semiconductors, yet hard to determine experimentally. We evaluated…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 81 cited

Traps and transport resistance: the next frontier for stable state-of-the-art non-fullerene acceptor solar cells

Christopher Wöpke, Clemens Göhler, Maria Saladina +17

Stability is one of the most important challenges facing organic solar cells (OSC) on their path to commercialization. In the high-performance material system PM6:Y6 studied here,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 61 cited

Charge Photogeneration in Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells: Influence of Excess Energy and Electrostatic Interactions

Maria Saladina, Pablo Simón Marqués, Anastasia Markina +11

In organic solar cells, photogenerated singlet excitons form charge transfer (CT) complexes, which subsequently split into free charge carriers. Here, we consider the contributions…

physics.app-ph2021★ 23 cited

Temperature dependent charge transfer state absorption and emission reveal dominant role of dynamic disorder in organic solar cells

Clemens Göhler, Maria Saladina, Yazhong Wang +4

The energetic landscape of charge transfer (CT) states at the interface of electron donating and electron accepting domains in organic optoelectronic devices is crucial for their p…