Photonic sintering of inkjet printed current collecting grids for organic solar cell applications

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-46

  Galagan, Yulia ^a   Coenen, Erica W C ^b   Abbel, Robert ^a   Van Lammeren, Tim J ^a   Sabik, Sami ^a   Barink, Marco ^b   Meinders, Erwin R ^a,b   Andriessen, Ronn ^a   Blom, Paul W M ^a  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Current collecting grids; Flash sintering; Flexible substrates; Inkjet printing; ITO free organic solar cells; Photonic sintering

Indexed keywords

INK JET PRINTING; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES;

CURRENT COLLECTING GRIDS; FLASH SINTERING; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; ITO FREE; PHOTONIC SINTERING;

SINTERING;

EID: 84870205608     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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