Ultrathin and lightweight organic solar cells with high flexibility

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kaltenbrunner, Martin ^a,b,c   White, Matthew S ^a   Głowacki, Eric D ^a   Sekitani, Tsuyoshi ^b,c   Someya, Takao ^b,c   Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar ^a   Bauer, Siegfried ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR; TECHNOLOGY; WEIGHT;

EID: 84860289329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1772     Document Type: Article

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