The application of oxidative chemical vapor deposited (oCVD) PEDOT to textured and non-planar photovoltaic device geometries for enhanced light trapping

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2257-2268

  Howden, Rachel M ^a   Flores, Eletha J ^b   Bulović, Vladimir ^b   Gleason, Karen K ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot embossing; Light trapping; OCVD; Organic photovoltaic; PEDOT; Vapor deposition

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

HOT-EMBOSSING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OCVD; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PEDOT;

MACROS;

EID: 84885620835     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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