Continuous, highly flexible, and transparent graphene films by chemical vapor deposition for organic photovoltaics

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2865-2873

  Gomez De Arco, Lewis ^a,b   Zhang, Yi ^a,b   Schlenker, Cody W ^b   Ryu, Koungmin ^a   Thompson, Mark E ^b   Zhou, Chongwu ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical vapor deposition; Flexible photovoltaics; Flexible solar cell; Graphene; Organic photovoltaics; Transparent conductor; Transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELL; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ITO GLASS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOPLASTICS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSPARENCY;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 77952911108     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901587x     Document Type: Article

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