ITO-free organic solar cells with roll-to-roll coated organic functional layers from non-halogenated solvents

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 124, Issue , 2014, Pages 92-97

  Kaduwal, Deepak ^a,b   Schleiermacher, Hans Frieder ^a   Schulz Gericke, Jan ^a   Kroyer, Thomas ^a   Zimmermann, Birger ^a   Würfel, Uli ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosol printing; Ag grid; ITO free; Non chlorinated solvents; R2R coating; Sputtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894247154     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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