Organic solar cells characterized by dark lock-in thermography

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 642-647

  Bachmann, Jonas ^a   Buerhop Lutz, Claudia ^a   Deibel, Carsten ^b   Riedel, Ingo ^c   Hoppe, Harald ^d   Brabec, Christoph J ^a   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^b  

^a BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

I V characteristic; Lock in thermography; Organic solar cell; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CONTACTS; APPLIED VOLTAGES; CURRENTS FLOWING; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; KIRCHHOFF LAWS; LOCKIN THERMOGRAPHY; MATRIX; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NONUNIFORM; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SEMICONDUCTING LAYER; SERIAL RESISTANCE; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TEMPERATURE RESOLUTION; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMAL LOSS;

CELLS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PARALLEL FLOW; REMOTE SENSING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77649271464     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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