Nanoparticle-based, spray-coated silver top contacts for efficient polymer solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 735-740

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

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

65.80.+n; 73.61.At; 81.07. b; 81.15.Rs; 84.60.Jt; Ag nanoparticles; Metal top contact; Organic solar cells; Solution processing; Spray coating

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SINTERING;

73.61.AT; 81.15.RS; 84.60.JT; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SPRAY COATING; TOP CONTACT;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 67349268166     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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