Key factors to improve the efficiency of roll-to-roll printed organic photovoltaics

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1744-1748

  Koidis, Christos ^a   Logothetidis, Stergios ^a   Ioakeimidis, Apostolos ^a   Laskarakis, Argiris ^a   Kapnopoulos, Christos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Flexible organic photovoltaics; Phase separation; Printed P3HT:PCBM; Roll to roll drying; Roll to roll gravure; Spectroscopic ellipsometry

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DRYING; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; PRINTED P3HT:PCBM; ROLL TO ROLL; ROLL TO ROLL PROCESSES (R2R); VERTICAL PHASE SEPARATIONS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 84877306603     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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