A brief history of the development of organic and polymeric photovoltaics

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 125-146

  Spanggaard, Holger ^a   Krebs, Frederik C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Heterojunction; LED; Organic photovoltaics; Photocurrent; Plastic solar cells

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CHLOROPHYLL; DYES; ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELECTRON AFFINITY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLASTIC SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERIC PHOTOVOLTAICS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 2642568705     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2004.02.021     Document Type: Article

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