A Photovoltaic Fiber Design for Smart Textiles

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1065-1074

  Demir, Ali ^b   Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar ^c  

^a Celik)   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

photovoltaic fiber; polymer based organic solar cell; smart fiber; smart textile

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FIBERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYPROPYLENES; SMART TEXTILES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TEXTILE BLENDS;

ABSORBING MATERIALS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYMER BASED; TEXTILE APPLICATIONS; VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

DESIGN; FABRICATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER BLEND; POLYPROPYLENE FIBER; SMART FABRIC; TECHNICAL TEXTILE;

EID: 77953678566     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0040517509352520     Document Type: Article

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