Large area ITO-free organic solar cells on steel substrate

Organic Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3310-3314

  Galagan, Yulia ^a   Moet, Date J D ^a   Hermes, Dorothee C ^a   Blom, Paul W M ^a   Andriessen, Ronn ^a  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ITO free; Metal substrate; Optical modeling; Organic solar cells; Stainless steel; Transparent cathode

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; SHEET RESISTANCE; SOLAR CELLS; STAINLESS STEEL; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; ZINC SULFIDE;

BARRIER PROPERTIES; ITO FREE; LARGE AREA DEVICES; METAL SUBSTRATE; OPTICAL MODELING; OPTICAL SIMULATION; THIN METAL LAYERS; TRANSPARENT CATHODE;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84868480657     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.09.039     Document Type: Article

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