Highly stable Ag-Ni based transparent electrodes on PET substrates for flexible organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 107, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-68

  Formica, Nadia ^a   Sundar Ghosh, Dhriti ^a   Chen, Tong Lai ^a   Eickhoff, Christian ^b   Bruder, Ingmar ^b   Pruneri, Valerio ^a,c  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flexible; Highly stable; Indium free; Transparent electrode; Ultrathin silver films

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE; HIGHLY STABLE; INDIUM-FREE; SILVER FILM; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PLASMA STABILITY; SILVER; SILVER ALLOYS; SUBSTRATES; TIN; TIN OXIDES; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84865538701     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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