Embedded inkjet printed silver grids for ITO-free organic solar cells with high fill factor

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-57

  Burgués Ceballos, Ignasi ^a,b   Kehagias, Nikolaos ^c   Sotomayor Torres, Clivia M ^c,d   Campoy Quiles, Mariano ^a   Lacharmoise, Paul D ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b Cetemmsa Technological Center   (Spain)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Embedded electrodes; Inkjet printing; ITO replacement; Polymer solar cells; Reverse nanoimprinting transfer; Silver grids

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; SILVER; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRODE STRUCTURE; EMBEDDED ELECTRODES; ITO REPLACEMENT; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; REVERSE NANOIMPRINTING; TRANSPARENT SEMICONDUCTOR;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84899888624     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.03.024     Document Type: Article

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