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Yanming Sun

University of California, Santa Barbara · US
Area of research
Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Polymers and Plastics
Research interest
Research focused on Organic solar cell and Ternary operation, with related work in Acceptor, Fullerene, Active layer. Notable publications include 'Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology', 'Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells', and 'A Well‐Mixed Phase Formed by Two Compatible Non‐Fullerene Acceptors Enables Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 18.6%'.
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Recent publications

Acceptor Crystallinity Engineering Enables >20% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells with 83.0% Fill Factor
Advanced Materials 2025cited by 67position: lastdoi
Suppression of Charge Recombination Induced by Solid Additive Assisting Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 20%
Advanced Materials 2025cited by 63position: lastdoi
Thiophene Expanded Self‐Assembled Monolayer as Hole Transport Layer for Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency of 20.78%
Advanced Materials 2025cited by 23position: middledoi
Sonication-induced J-aggregation in nonhalogenated solvents boosts exciton delocalization for high-efficiency organic solar cells
Nature Communications 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Perylene‐Diimide Dimers with Cross Conformations as Cathode Interfacial Layers for High‐Performance and Stable Thin‐Film Solar Cells
Angewandte Chemie 2025cited by 2position: lastdoi
Non‐halogenated Solvent‐Processed Organic Solar Cells with Approaching 20 % Efficiency and Improved Photostability
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024cited by 174position: lastdoi
Suppressing Trap‐Assisted Nonradiative Recombination via Interface Modification for Achieving Efficient Organic Solar Cells
Advanced Energy Materials 2024cited by 65position: lastdoi
Photomultiplication-type all-polymer photodetectors and their applications in photoplethysmography sensor
Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica 2024cited by 37position: middledoi
Over 18% Efficiency of All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Long‐Term Stability Enabled by Y6 as a Solid Additive
Advanced Materials 2023cited by 85position: lastdoi
Impact of donor halogenation on reorganization energies and voltage losses in bulk-heterojunction solar cells
Energy & Environmental Science 2023cited by 41position: middledoi
Interplanar Ferromagnetism Enhanced Ultrawide Zero Thermal Expansion in Kagome Cubic Intermetallic (Zr,Nb)Fe<sub>2</sub>
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023cited by 29position: firstdoi
Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology
Nature Materials 2022cited by 2,373position: middledoi
Vertically optimized phase separation with improved exciton diffusion enables efficient organic solar cells with thick active layers
Nature Communications 2022cited by 303position: lastdoi
Ternary strategy enabling high-efficiency rigid and flexible organic solar cells with reduced non-radiative voltage loss
Energy & Environmental Science 2022cited by 162position: lastdoi
Improved Molecular Ordering in a Ternary Blend Enables All‐Polymer Solar Cells over 18% Efficiency
Advanced Materials 2022cited by 95position: lastdoi
Benzo[1,2‐b:4,5‐b′]difuran Based Polymer Donor for High‐Efficiency (&gt;16%) and Stable Organic Solar Cells
Advanced Energy Materials 2022cited by 52position: lastdoi
Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells
Nature Energy 2021cited by 2,119position: lastdoi
A Well‐Mixed Phase Formed by Two Compatible Non‐Fullerene Acceptors Enables Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 18.6%
Advanced Materials 2021cited by 455position: lastdoi
A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells
Nature Energy 2021cited by 428position: middledoi
Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells
Nature Communications 2020cited by 346position: lastdoi
Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells with High Open‐Circuit Voltage of 1.3 V and Low Non‐Radiative Voltage Loss of 0.16 V
Advanced Materials 2020cited by 215position: middledoi
Ferrocene as a highly volatile solid additive in non-fullerene organic solar cells with enhanced photovoltaic performance
Energy & Environmental Science 2020cited by 141position: lastdoi
The Next 100 Years of Polymer Science
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2020cited by 108position: middledoi
Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency &gt;16.5% Based on Two Compatible Nonfullerene Acceptors
Advanced Materials 2019cited by 271position: lastdoi
A General Approach for Lab‐to‐Manufacturing Translation on Flexible Organic Solar Cells
Advanced Materials 2019cited by 162position: middledoi
Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Small Nonradiative Recombination Loss
ACS Energy Letters 2019cited by 118position: lastdoi
Fluorobenzotriazole (FTAZ)‐Based Polymer Donor Enables Organic Solar Cells Exceeding 12% Efficiency
Advanced Functional Materials 2019cited by 70position: middledoi
Ternary organic solar cells based on two compatible PDI-based acceptors with an enhanced power conversion efficiency
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019cited by 64position: lastdoi
Morphology Control Enables Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells
Advanced Materials 2018cited by 291position: lastdoi
High‐Performance Semitransparent Ternary Organic Solar Cells
Advanced Functional Materials 2018cited by 120position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Xiaotao Hao · Fudan University16 papers (2018–2025)Yunhao Cai · Jiangsu University9 papers (2018–2022)Han Young Woo · North Carolina State University9 papers (2018–2025)Feng Liu · Sinopec (China)8 papers (2017–2022)Jiawei Qiao · Shandong University8 papers (2022–2025)Jiali Song · South China Agricultural University7 papers (2019–2024)Chao Li · Zhongyuan University of Technology6 papers (2018–2022)Yuanpeng Xie · Nanchang University6 papers (2018–2025)Zheng Tang · Fudan University6 papers (2022–2024)Guanghao Lu · Shanghai Institute for Science of Science6 papers (2020–2025)Jinqiu Xu · Shanghai Jiao Tong University5 papers (2019–2022)Lei Zhu · Shanghai Jiao Tong University5 papers (2019–2022) · 5 papers (2019–2022) · 4 papers (2016–2019)Kangning Zhang · Shandong University4 papers (2019–2025)Jiali Song · Nanchang University4 papers (2025–2025)Hongbo Wu · The University of Texas at Austin4 papers (2020–2023)Kangkang Weng · Tsinghua University4 papers (2019–2020)Pengqing Bi · Shandong University4 papers (2018–2019)Yun Li · Fujian Normal University4 papers (2021–2023)