Evaluation of ink-jet printed current collecting grids and busbars for ITO-free organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-38

  Galagan, Yulia ^a   Coenen, Erica W C ^b   Sabik, Sami ^a   Gorter, Harrie H ^a   Barink, Marco ^b   Veenstra, Sjoerd C ^b   Kroon, Jan M ^b   Andriessen, Ronn ^a   Blom, Paul W M ^a  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Current collecting grids; Electrical potential; Ink jet printing; ITO free solar cells; Modeling; Polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE ANODES; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL; GRID ELECTRODES; GRID LINE; INK-JET; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PEDOT:PSS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; UPPER LIMITS;

ANODES; BUSBARS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; MODELS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84861133863     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.04.039     Document Type: Article

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