Life-cycle assessment of organic solar cell technologies

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 742-747

  Anctil, Annick ^a,b   Babbitt, Callie ^a   Landi, Brian ^a,b   Raffaelle, Ryne P ^c  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NanoPower Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C70-PCBM; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; ELECTRONIC GRADE; EMBODIED ENERGY; ENERGY PAYBACK; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; LOW COSTS; LOW-YIELD; ON CURRENTS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; SINGLE JUNCTION; STATE OF THE ART; TOXIC CHEMICALS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TOXIC MATERIALS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 78650076485     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5617085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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