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Holmes, A.B.: Efficient photodiodes from interpenetrating polymer networks. Nature 376,
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Yip, H.L., Cao, Y., Chen, Y.: Organic and solution-processed tandem solar cells with 17.3%
efficiency. Science 361, 1094–1098 (2018)
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Zhang, X., Ding, L.: 18% Efficiency organic solar cells. Bull. Sci. 65, 272–275 (2020)
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Efficient organic plastic solar cells. Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 841–843 (2001)
6. Padinger, F., Rittberger, R.S., Sariciftci, N.S.: Effects of postproduction treatment on plastic
solar cells. Adv. Funct. Mater. 13, 85–88 (2003)
7. Peet, J., Kim, J.Y., Coates, N.E., Ma, W.L., Moses, D., Heeger, A.J., Bazan, G.C.: Efficiency
enhancement in low-bandgap polymer solar cells by processing with alkane dithiols. Nat.
Mater. 6, 497–500 (2007)
8. Lin, Y., Wang, J., Zhang, Z.-G., Bai, H., Li, Y., Zhu, D., Zhan, X.: An electron acceptor
challenging fullerenes for efficient polymer solar cells. Adv. Mater. 27, 1170–1174 (2015)
9. Honda, S., Nogami, T., Ohkita, H., Benten, H., Ito, S.: Improvement of the light-harvesting
efficiency in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells by interfacial dye modification.
ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 1, 804–810 (2009)
10. Honda, S., Ohkita, H., Benten, H., Ito, S.: Multi-colored dye sensitization of polymer/fullerene
bulk heterojunction solar cells. Chem. Commun. 46, 6596–6598 (2010)
11. Honda, S., Ohkita, H., Benten, H., Ito, S.: Selective dye loading at the heterojunction in
polymer/fullerene solar cells. Adv. Energy Mater. 1, 588–598 (2011)
12. Xu, H., Ohkita, H., Tamai, Y., Benten, H., Ito, S.: Interface engineering for ternary blend
polymer solar cells with a heterostructured near-IR dye. Adv. Mater. 27, 5868–5874 (2015)
13. Honda, S., Yokoya, S., Ohkita, H., Benten, H., Ito, S.: Light-harvesting mechanism in
polymer/fullerene/dye ternary blend studied by transient absorption spectroscopy. J. Phys.
Chem. C 115, 11306–11317 (2011)
14. Ohkita, H., Ito, S.: Transient absorption spectroscopy of polymer-based thin-film solar cells.
Polymer 52, 4397–4417 (2011)
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absorption spectroscopy. In: Choy, W.C.H. (ed.) Organic Solar Cells, pp. 103–137. SpringerVerlag, London (2013)
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164, 658 (1949)
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Prize. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1967/porter/lecture/ (1967). Accessed 8
November 2019
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lasers. The official website of the Nobel Prize. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/
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