Transparent, dip-coated silver nanowire electrodes for small molecule organic solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 143-148

  Sachse, Christoph ^a   Müller Meskamp, Lars ^a   Bormann, Ludwig ^a   Kim, Yong Hyun ^a   Lehnert, Fritz ^a   Philipp, André ^b   Beyer, Beatrice ^b   Leo, Karl ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Materialien und Elektronische Bauelemente   (Germany)

Author keywords

ITO free; Organic solar cell; Silver nanowires; Transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MOLECULES; NANOWIRES; SCALABILITY; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; SOLVENTS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES;

DIP COATING; ITO FREE; PERCOLATION NETWORKS; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; SCALABLE METHODS; SILVER NANOWIRES; SMALL-MOLECULE ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; STACK STRUCTURE;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84870226184     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.09.032     Document Type: Article

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