Area dependent efficiency of organic solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Gupta, Dhritiman ^a   Bag, Monojit ^a   Narayan, K S ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ELECTROLYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

ACTIVE AREAS; EFFICIENCY ESTIMATIONS; ELECTRICAL; ELECTRODE AREAS; INCIDENT BEAMS; METAL ELECTRODES; OPTICAL EFFECTS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; RESISTIVE LOSSES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 54949142500     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2998540     Document Type: Article

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