Highly efficient Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells grown on flexible polymer films

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 857-861

  Chirilǎ, Adrian ^a   Buecheler, Stephan ^a   Pianezzi, Fabian ^a   Bloesch, Patrick ^a   Gretener, Christina ^a   Uhl, Alexander R ^a   Fella, Carolin ^a   Kranz, Lukas ^a   Perrenoud, Julian ^a   Seyrling, Sieghard ^a   Verma, Rajneesh ^a   Nishiwaki, Shiro ^a   Romanyuk, Yaroslav E ^a   Bilger, Gerhard ^b   Tiwari, Ayodhya N ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPPER; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; MANUFACTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

COMPOSITION GRADIENT; COST COMPETITIVENESS; FLEXIBLE POLYMER FILM; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; PHOTOVOLTAIC INDUSTRY; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; THIN-FILM TECHNOLOGY;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 80054907906     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3122     Document Type: Article

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