Accurate measurement of organic solar cell efficiency

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7052, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Emery, K ^a   Moriarty, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Organic; Photovoltaic; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS; CURRENT GENERATIONS; DIODE QUALITY FACTORS; DYE-SENSITIZED PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ERROR SOURCES; I-V MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; NON LINEARITIES; OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGES; ORGANIC; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PEAK POWER; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SHUNT RESISTANCES; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS; VOLTAGE RESPONSE;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 57649101735     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.799606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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