Efficient polymer solar cells via an all-spray-coated deposition

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1068-1072

  Girotto, Claudio ^a,b   Moia, Davide ^a,c   Rand, Barry P ^a   Aernouts, Tom ^a   Heremans, Paul ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; ACTIVE LAYER; COATED HOLE; COATED LAYERS; FILL FACTOR; FILM QUALITY; MARANGONI FLOWS; OPTIMIZED DEVICES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PEDOT:PSS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLVENT SYSTEM; SURFACE PROFILOMETRY; SURFACE TENSION GRADIENT; THERMAL-ANNEALING; THICKNESS VARIATION; ULTRASONIC SPRAY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SURFACE TENSION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78650140071     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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