Gravure printing for three subsequent solar cell layers of inverted structures on flexible substrates

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 731-734

  Voigt, Monika M ^a   MacKenzie, Roderick C I ^a   Yau, Chin P ^a   Atienzar, Pedro ^a   Dane, Justin ^a   Keivanidis, Panagiotis E ^a   Bradley, Donal D C ^a   Nelson, Jenny ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravure; Inverted structures; Organic solar cells; P3HT:PCBM; Printing; Wetting behaviour

Indexed keywords

GRAVURE; INVERTED STRUCTURE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; P3HT:PCBM; WETTING BEHAVIOUR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; INK; OFFSET PRINTING; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXYGEN; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SOLAR CELLS; STYRENE; SUBSTRATES; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES; WETTING;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 78650704023     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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