A rational method for developing and testing stable flexible indium- and vacuum-free multilayer tandem polymer solar cells comprising up to twelve roll processed layers

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 120, Issue PART B, 2014, Pages 735-743

  Andersen, Thomas R ^a   Dam, Henrik F ^a   Andreasen, Birgitta ^a   Hösel, Markus ^a   Madsen, Morten V ^a   Gevorgyan, Suren A ^a   Søndergaard, Roar R ^a   Jørgensen, Mikkel ^a   Krebs, Frederik C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Flexible; ITO free; Roll printed; Stability; Tandem polymer solar cells; Vacuum free

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE; ITO FREE; OPERATIONAL STABILITY; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; RECOMBINATION LAYERS; VACUUM EVAPORATION METHOD; VACUUM-FREE;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; VACUUM;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84889102856     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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