Over 30% transparency large area inverted organic solar array by spray

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2816-2822

  Lewis, Jason E ^a   Lafalce, Evan ^a   Toglia, Patrick ^a   Jiang, Xiaomei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymer; Inverted geometry; Organic solar array; Photovoltaic; Spray

Indexed keywords

DEVICE EFFICIENCY; GLASS SUBSTRATES; INVERTED GEOMETRY; OPTIMAL ANNEALING; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; PRELIMINARY DATA; SOLAR ARRAYS; SOLAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; SPRAY; TEST DEVICE; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SUBSTRATES;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79960564185     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.05.037     Document Type: Article

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