Optimization of PVA clay nanocomposite for ultra-barrier multilayer encapsulation of organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 99, Issue , 2012, Pages 240-249

  Gaume, Julien ^a   Taviot Gueho, Christine ^a,b   Cros, Stéphane ^c   Rivaton, Agnès ^a   Thérias, Sandrine ^a   Gardette, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Encapsulation; Nanocomposite; PVA; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

CLAY CONTENT; CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PROCESS; GAS BARRIER PROPERTIES; KEYPOINTS; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; NANO-COMPOSITE LAYERS; ORGANIC LAYERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; ORGANIC/INORGANIC; PLANARITY; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; PVA; VISIBLE REGION; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ENCAPSULATION; HELIUM; MULTILAYERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTIMIZATION; SODIUM; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSPARENCY;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84856514390     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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