Exploring spray coating as a deposition technique for the fabrication of solution-processed solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 454-458

  Girotto, Claudio ^a,b   Rand, Barry P ^a   Genoe, Jan ^a   Heremans, Paul ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Organic solar cells; Solution processing; Spray coating; Structural control

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PESTICIDES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; THIOPHENE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SOLUTION PROCESSING; SPRAY COATING; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

PLASTIC COATINGS;

EID: 60449100808     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2008.11.052     Document Type: Article

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