Relationship between encapsulation barrier performance and organic solar cell lifetime

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7048, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cros, Stéphane ^a   Guillerez, Stéphane ^a   De Bettignies, Rémi ^a   Lemauâtre, Noëlla ^a   Bailly, Severine ^a   Maisse, Pascal ^a  

^a Institut National de l'Energie Solaire   (France)

Author keywords

Barrier measurements; Encapsulation; Lifetime; Organic solar cells; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; CATHODES; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ENCAPSULATION; EXPERIMENTS; INORGANIC COATINGS; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMERS; RELIABILITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

BARRIER MEASUREMENTS; BARRIER PERFORMANCES; CATHODE MATERIALS; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; LIFE-TIMES; LIFETIME; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; OXYGEN PERMEATIONS; POLYMER SUBSTRATES; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENTS; STEADY AND TRANSIENTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 56249089686     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.794986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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