The effect of post-processing treatments on inflection points in currentvoltage curves of roll-to-roll processed polymer photovoltaics

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2018-2031

  Lilliedal, Mathilde R ^a   Medford, Andrew J ^a   Madsen, Morten V ^a   Norrman, Kion ^a   Krebs, Frederik C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Inverted polymer solar cells; IV curve; Roll to roll processing; S curve; Scale up; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTOOXIDATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERS; SCREEN PRINTING; ZINC OXIDE;

I - V CURVE; INVERTED POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; ROLL-TO-ROLL PROCESSING; S CURVE; SCALE-UP;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77957669532     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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