Water ingress into and climate dependent lifetime of organic photovoltaic cells investigated by calcium corrosion tests

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 120, Issue PART B, 2014, Pages 685-690

  Klumbies, Hannes ^a   Karl, Markus ^a   Hermenau, Martin ^a   Rösch, Roland ^b   Seeland, Marco ^b   Hoppe, Harald ^b   Müller Meskamp, Lars ^a   Leo, Karl ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degradation; Encapsulation; Macro defects; Organic solar cells; Water permeation barrier

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES; MACRODEFECTS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; SMALL-MOLECULE ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; WATER PERMEATION;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; DEFECTS; DEGRADATION; ENCAPSULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84889087443     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.10.023     Document Type: Article

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