Fullerene derivative blends are described herein. The blends are useful in electronic applications such as, e.g., organic photovoltaic devices.

A method of patterning a light-emitting layer and a method of manufacturing a light-emitting diode device are provided, including: providing a substrate; forming a first electrode layer on the substrate; forming a sacrificial layer on the first electrode layer; patterning the sacrificial layer to remove the sacrificial layer in a first region of the substrate and retain the sacrificial layer in a second region of the substrate, the first electrode layer is at least partially located in the first region; forming a first carrier auxiliary layer in the first region and the second region; forming a light-emitting layer on the first carrier auxiliary layer, and removing the retained sacrificial layer in the second region and the first carrier auxiliary layer and the light-emitting layer covering the retained sacrificial layer, and retaining the first carrier auxiliary layer and the light-emitting layer in the first region, to pattern the light-emitting layer.

An integrated tandem solar cell includes a first solar cell including a rear electrode, a light absorption layer disposed on the rear electrode, and a buffer layer disposed on the light absorption layer; a recombination layer including a first transparent conductive layer disposed on the buffer layer; a nanoparticle layer that is transparent and conductive, that is disposed on the first transparent conductive layer, and that planarizes the first solar cell; and a second transparent conductive layer disposed on the nanoparticle layer; and a second solar cell that is a perovskite solar cell including a perovskite layer and that is disposed on and bonded to the second transparent conductive layer of the recombination layer. The recombination layer electrically joins the first and second solar cells and planarizes the first solar cell so that the second solar cell is uniformly deposited in all regions thereof.

A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including a first organic semiconductor material, a second organic semiconductor material, and a third organic semiconductor material that have mother skeletons different from one another. The first organic semiconductor material is one of fullerenes and fullerene derivatives. The second organic semiconductor material in a form of a single-layer film has a higher linear absorption coefficient of a maximal light absorption wavelength in a visible light region than a single-layer film of the first organic semiconductor material and a single-layer film of the third organic semiconductor material. The third organic semiconductor material has a value equal to or higher than a HOMO level of the second organic semiconductor material.

A solar cell device is presented. The solar cell device comprises a layered structure comprising an electron transport layer and a hole transport layer and a heterojunction interface region between the electron transport and hole transport layers configured to define at least one charge generation region forming at least one junction between them, wherein at least one of the electron transport layer and the hole transport layer comprises at least one modulated doping layer at a predetermined distance from said at least one junction, said at least one modulated doping layer thereby inducing variation of an energy band structure at a vicinity of said at least one junction generating electric field applied to charge carriers increasing efficiency of generation and/or collection of the charge carriers.

To provide an n-type dopant capable of providing high charge mobility and controlling the Fermi level. To provide an organic semiconductor layer having high charge mobility, no crystal distortion, no dopant diffusion even at high temperatures, and having a controlled Fermi level. To provide an organic semiconductor devices such as an organic semiconductor solar cells with high power conversion efficiency.

An n-type organic semiconductor layer, in which ionic atom encapsulated fullerene neutral substance is doped in a layer made of fullerene. The n-type semiconductor layer is an electron transport layer. N-type dopant including ionic atom encapsulated fullerene neutral substance doped in an organic semiconductor layer.

A power generation device manufacturing method and a power generation device are proposed. In one embodiment, the method includes (a) forming a halide perovskite active layer on a flexible substrate bent by a stress applied thereto and (b) releasing the stress applied to the substrate on which the halide perovskite active layer is formed, thereby unfolding the bent substrate. By applying a strain to the active layer of the power generation device and controlling the same, using the method described above, it is possible to improve the performance of the power generation device without changing the composition of the active layer or the configuration of the device.

An organic photoelectronic device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other and a light-absorption layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a photoelectric conversion region including a p-type light-absorbing material and an n-type light-absorbing material and a doped region including an exciton quencher and at least one of the p-type light-absorbing material and the n-type light-absorbing material, wherein at least one of the p-type light-absorbing material and the n-type light-absorbing material selectively absorbs a part of visible light, and an image sensor includes the same.

Provided is a heterofullerene where n number (where n is a positive even number) of carbon atoms constituting a fullerene are substituted by n number of boron atoms or n number of nitrogen atoms.

The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds containing a polycyclic unit, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, perovskite-based solar cell (PSC) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, PSC, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.