Interlaboratory outdoor stability studies of flexible roll-to-roll coated organic photovoltaic modules: Stability over 10,000 h

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 187-196

  Gevorgyan, Suren A ^a   Madsen, Morten V ^a   Dam, Henrik F ^a   Jørgensen, Mikkel ^a   Fell, Christopher J ^b   Anderson, Kenrick F ^b   Duck, Benjamin C ^b   Mescheloff, Asaf ^c   Katz, Eugene A ^c   Elschner, Andreas ^d   Roesch, Roland ^e   Hoppe, Harald ^e   Hermenau, Martin ^f   Riede, Moritz ^f   Krebs, Frederik C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^e ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Encapsulation; Interlaboratory study; Organic photovoltaics; Outdoor testing; Stability

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; INTERLABORATORY STUDIES; INVERTED ARCHITECTURES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV); ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; OUTDOOR MEASUREMENTS; OUTDOOR TESTING;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ENCAPSULATION; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84878349056     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.04.024     Document Type: Article

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