Fully solution-processed organic solar cells on metal foil substrates

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7416, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gaynor, Whitney ^a   Lee, Jung Yong ^a   Peumans, Peter ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanowires; Organic photovoltaic; Solution processing

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM ELECTRODES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; METAL FOIL SUBSTRATES; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REGIO-REGULAR; SILVER FILM; SILVER NANOWIRES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; TOP ANODE; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE;

CESIUM; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC WIRE; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES;

METAL FOIL;

EID: 70449652400     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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