Preorganization of nanostructured inks for roll-to-roll-coated polymer solar cells

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1821-1826

  Krebs, Frederik C ^a   Senkovskyy, Volodymyr ^b   Kiriy, Anton ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nanoparticles; nanostructured inks; polymer solar cells; preorganized inks; roll to roll (R2R) coating and printing; surface polymerization

Indexed keywords

NANO-STRUCTURED; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; PREORGANIZED INKS; ROLL TO ROLL; SURFACE POLYMERIZATION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYTOLOGY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INK; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PRINTING; PRINTING PRESSES; ROLLS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); SILICA; SOLAR CELLS;

PLASTIC COATINGS;

EID: 78650041809     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2039467     Document Type: Article

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