Business, market and intellectual property analysis of polymer solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1553-1571

  Nielsen, Torben D ^a   Cruickshank, Craig ^b   Foged, Søren ^c   Thorsen, Jesper ^c   Krebs, Frederik C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Inspicos A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Business analysis; Intellectual property analysis; IPR analysis; Market analysis; OPV; Organic solar cells; Patents; Polymer solar cell modules; Polymer solar cells; Roll to roll processing

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; COSTS; MANUFACTURE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BUSINESS ANALYSIS; IPR ANALYSIS; MARKET ANALYSIS; PATENTS; ROLL-TO-ROLL PROCESSING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77955426056     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.04.074     Document Type: Review

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