An optical spacer is no panacea for light collection in organic solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Andersson, B Viktor ^a   Huang, David M ^b   Mouĺ, Adam J ^b   Inganäs, Olle ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

ACTIVE LAYERS; BAND-GAPS; BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; FINITE ELEMENTS; LIGHT COLLECTIONS; OPTICAL SIMULATIONS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SPACER LAYERS; TRANSFER MATRICES;

TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

EID: 59349100041     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3073710     Document Type: Article

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