Technology development for roll-to-roll production of organic photovoltaics

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 50, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 454-461

  Galagan, Yulia ^a   de Vries, Ike G ^a   Langen, Arjan P ^a   Andriessen, Ronn ^a   Verhees, Wiljan J H ^b   Veenstra, Sjoerd C ^b   Kroon, Jan M ^b  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coating; OPV module; Organic solar cell; Photovoltaics; Roll to Roll; Slot die

Indexed keywords

OPV MODULE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAICS; ROLL TO ROLL; SLOT DIE;

COATINGS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 79955952644     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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