Efficient organic tandem cell combining a solid state dye-sensitized and a vacuum deposited bulk heterojunction solar cell

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1896-1899

  Bruder, Ingmar ^a   Karlsson, Martin ^b   Eickemeyer, Felix ^a   Hwang, Jaehyung ^a   Erk, Peter ^a   Hagfeldt, Anders ^b   Weis, Jürgen ^c   Pschirer, Neil ^a  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Organic photovoltaic; Solid state dye sensitized solar cell; Tandem cell; Vacuum deposited bulk heterojunction solar cell

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DEVICE PARAMETERS; DYE SENSITIZED; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SERIAL CONNECTION; SUB-CELLS; TANDEM CELL; TANDEM CELLS; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYTOLOGY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; VACUUM;

CELL MEMBRANES;

EID: 68449096139     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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