The future of organic photovoltaic solar cells as a direct power source for consumer electronics

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 103, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-10

  Lizin, Sebastien ^a   Van Passel, Steven ^a   De Schepper, Ellen ^a   Vranken, Liesbet ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Consumer electronics; Homogeneous market; OPV; Solar cells; Stated preference valuation

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE IMPORTANCE; BELGIUM; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MARKETS; CONSUMER PREFERENCES; HOMOGENEOUS MARKET; MARKET SEGMENT; MARKET SHARE; OPV; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; POWER SOURCES; PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS; RANDOM SAMPLE; STATED PREFERENCES; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; EXPERIMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84860337174     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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