Light confinement in thin film organic photovoltaic cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6197, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tvingstedt, Kristofer ^a   Tonnen, Massimo ^b   Businaro, Luca ^b   Inganäs, Olle ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Light confinement; Optical spacer; Organic solar cell; Soft lithography; Three dimensional microstrucrures; Transparent electrodes; Trapping

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THIN FILMS;

LIGHT CONFINEMENT; OPTICAL SPACERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL MICROSTRUCRURES; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES; TRAPPING;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 33747633482     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.662794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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