Towards new multifunctional coatings for organic photovoltaics

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 127-132

  Šiffalovič, Peter ^a   Jergel, Matej ^a   Benkovičová, Monika ^a   Vojtko, Andrej ^a   Nádaždy, Vojtech ^a   Ivančo, Ján ^a   Bodík, Michal ^b   Demydenko, Maxym ^a,c   Majková, Eva ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Antireflective coating; Diffuse scattering; Light harvesting; Superhydrophobicity; Wide angle photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COATINGS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

EID: 84896987911     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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