An inter-laboratory stability study of roll-to-roll coated flexible polymer solar modules

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1398-1416

  Gevorgyan, Suren A ^a   Medford, Andrew J ^a   Bundgaard, Eva ^a   Sapkota, Subarna B ^b   Schleiermacher, Hans Frieder ^b   Zimmermann, Birger ^b   Würfel, Uli ^b   Chafiq, Amine ^c   Lira Cantu, Monica ^c   Swonke, Thomas ^d   Wagner, Michael ^d   Brabec, Christoph J ^d   Haillant, Olivier ^e   Voroshazi, Eszter ^f,g   Aernouts, Tom ^g   Steim, Roland ^h   Hauch, Jens A ^h   Elschner, Andreas ⁱ   Pannone, Michael ^j   Xiao, Min ^j   Langzettel, Anthony ^j   Laird, Darin ^j   Lloyd, Matthew T ^k   Rath, Thomas ^l,m   Maier, Eugen ^m,n   Trimmel, Gregor ^l,m   Hermenau, Martin ^o   Menke, Torben ^o   Leo, Karl ^o   Rösch, Roland ^p   Seeland, Marco ^p   Hoppe, Harald ^p   Nagle, Timothy J ^q   Burke, Kerry B ^q   Fell, Christopher J ^q   Vak, Doojin ^q   Singh, Th Birendra ^q   Watkins, Scott E ^q   Galagan, Yulia ^r   Manor, Assaf ^s   Katz, Eugene A ^s   Kim, Taehee ^t   Kim, Kyungkon ^t   Sommeling, Paul M ^u   Verhees, Wiljan J H ^u   Veenstra, Sjoerd C ^u   Riede, Moritz ^o,v   Greyson Christoforo, M ^v   Currier, Travis ^w   Shrotriya, Vishal ^w   Schwartz, Gregor ^x   Krebs, Frederik C ^a   more..

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^d BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

^e Atlas Material Testing Technology GmbH   (Germany)

^f IMEC   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^h Konarka Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

ⁱ HC Starck GmbH   (Germany)

^j Plextronics Inc   (United States)

^k NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^l GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^m GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

ⁿ POLYMER COMPETENCE CENTER LEOBEN GMBH   (Austria)

^o DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^p ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^q CSIRO   (Australia)

^r HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^s BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^t Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^u TNO   (Netherlands)

^v Stanford University   (United States)

^w Solarmer Energy Inc   (United States)

^x HELIATEK GMBH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Flexible modules; Inter laboratory study; Outdoor testing; Polymer solar cells; R2R manufactured OPV; Round robin

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FILM PREPARATION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LABORATORIES; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERS; ROUTERS; ZINC OXIDE;

FLEXIBLE MODULES; LABORATORY STUDIES; OUTDOOR TESTING; R2R MANUFACTURED OPV; ROUND ROBIN;

SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

EID: 79953728429     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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