Photo-degradation and its recovery by thermal annealing in polymer-based organic solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1628-1631

  Yamanari, Toshihiro ^a   Ogo, Hiroyuki ^a   Taima, Tetsuya ^a,b   Sakai, Jun ^c   Tsukamoto, Jun ^d   Yoshida, Yuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d TORAY INDUSTRIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PERFORMANCE; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; HIGH EFFICIENCY; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; LIGHT IRRADIATIONS; LONG TERM STABILITY; MANUFACTURING COST; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PRACTICAL USE; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEGRADATION; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78650151778     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5616522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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