Aerosol jet printed grid for ITO-free inverted organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 107, Issue , 2012, Pages 252-258

  Kopola, Pälvi ^a,b   Zimmermann, Birger ^a   Filipovic, Aleksander ^a   Schleiermacher, Hans Frieder ^a   Greulich, Johannes ^a   Rousu, Sanna ^b   Hast, Jukka ^b   Myllylä, Risto ^c   Würfel, Uli ^a,d  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosol jet printing; Current collecting grid; Indium tin oxide free; Inverted layer sequence; Organic solar cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; CELL LENGTHS; DEPOSITION METHODS; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; GRID DESIGN; GRID LINE; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; INVERTED DEVICES; INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; JET PRINTING; LAYER SEQUENCE; LINE PRINTING; MODULE STRUCTURE; OPTIMISATIONS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PEDOT:PSS; POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; PRINTING SPEED; SINGLE PASS;

AEROSOLS; ASPECT RATIO; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SHEET RESISTANCE; SOLAR CELLS; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

PRINTING;

EID: 84867579087     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.06.042     Document Type: Article

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