Cold isostatic pressing technique for producing highly efficient flexible dye-sensitised solar cells on plastic substrates

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-332

  Weerasinghe, Hasitha C ^a   Sirimanne, Prasad M ^a   Simon, George P ^a   Cheng, Yi Bing ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cold isostatic pressing; flexible dye sensitised solar cells; plastic substrates; TiO 2 films

Indexed keywords

CIP METHODS; COLD ISOSTATIC PRESSING; DYE-SENSITISED SOLAR CELLS; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INCIDENT LIGHT INTENSITY; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; ISOSTATIC PRESSURE; MECHANICAL ROBUSTNESS; NANOCRYSTALLINE TIO; NANOPOROUS TIO; ORGANIC BINDERS; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; POLYETHYLENE NAPHTHALATE; POLYMER SUBSTRATE; POWDER COMPACTIONS; POWDER SAMPLES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TIO;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FILM PREPARATION; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; POLYMER FILMS; SINTERING; TIN; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84860013059     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1140     Document Type: Article

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