Imaging Techniques for Studying OPV Stability and Degradation

Stability and Degradation of Organic and Polymer Solar Cells

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 39-70

  Seeland, Marco ^a   Rösch, Roland ^a   Hoppe, Harald ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DLIT and LBIC; Failure analysis, DLIT and optical scanning; ILIT, LIMO LIT, noncontact excitation; Imaging techniques; Imaging, and I V characterization; LBIC, photocurrent response; Luminescence imaging, discriminative characterization; OLED, and degradation; OPV stability, degradation; Photovoltaic DLIT excitation, two ways

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886505267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119942436.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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