A new series of stable, unsymmetrical squaraine near-IR sensitizers (JK-216 and JK-217), which are assembled using both thiophenyl pyrrolyl and indolium groups, exhibit a panchromatic light harvesting up to 780 nm. The JK-216 based cell exhibited a record efficiency of 6.29% for near-IR DSSCs. In addition, the JK-217 device showed an excellent stability under a light soaking test at 60 °C for 1000 h.

A new type of organic sensitizers incorporating a planar amine unit have been synthesized and demonstrated to be a highly efficient sensitizers, showing evidence of lateral interactions on the TiO(2) surface. Under standard global air mass 1.5 solar conditions, the JK-98 sensitized cell gave a short circuit photocurrent density (J(sc)) of 16.78 mA cm(-2), an open-circuit voltage (V(oc)) of 0.745 V, and a fill factor (ff) of 0.70, corresponding to an overall conversion efficiency (η) of 8.71%.

Annulated thiophene perylene bisimides and their triphenyl-amine based oligomers have been synthesized. One of the oligomers FPTTPA has been demonstrated to be an efficient electron donor in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells, giving a power conversion efficiency of 1.42%.

A facile new protocol for the synthesis of iodinated derivatives of fluorinated benzothiadiazoles is demonstrated for the production of p-type semiconducting materials. The newly synthesized small-molecule compounds bis[TPA-diTh]-MonoF-BT and bis[TPA-diTh]-DiF-BT exhibited a power conversion efficiency of 2.95% and a high open-circuit voltage of 0.85 V in solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells.