US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on July 22 for "Organic photovoltaic cells and non-fullerene acceptors thereof" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,694, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan.

"Organic photovoltaic cells and non-fullerene acceptors thereof" was invented by Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yongxi Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) and their compositions are described herein. In one or more embodiments, the acceptor with an active layer of an OPV includes is a non-fullerene acceptor. Such non-fullerene acceptors may provide improved OPV performance characteristics such as improved power conversion efficiency, open circuit voltage, fill factor, short circuit current, a...