High efficient plastic solar cells fabricated with a high-throughput gravure printing method

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1673-1680

  Kopola, P ^a   Aernouts, T ^b   Guillerez, S ^c   Jin, H ^a   Tuomikoski, M ^a   Maaninen, A ^a   Hast, J ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c CEA INES   (France)

Author keywords

Gravure printing; Organic photovoltaics; Polymer solar cell; Solution processing

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACIDS; GRAVURE PRINTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; HOLE TRANSPORTS; INDIUM-TIN-OXIDE SUBSTRATES; INK PROPERTIES; METHYL ESTERS; NANOMORPHOLOGIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; PLASTIC SOLAR CELLS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMER-BASED SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PRINTING SPEED; PROCESS PARAMETERS; ROLL TO ROLL; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; UNIFORM LAYER;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HOLE MOBILITY; ITO GLASS; OFFSET PRINTING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 77955423205     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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