Promising long-term stability of encapsulated ITO-free bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells under different aging conditions

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-150

  Sapkota, Subarna Babu ^a,b   Spies, Annika ^a,b   Zimmermann, Birger ^a   Dürr, Ines ^a   Würfel, Uli ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous illumination; Damp heat; ITO free organic solar cells; Long term stability; Suns Voc; Thermal stress

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GLASS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; STABILITY; THERMAL STRESS;

3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; DAMP HEAT; LONG TERM STABILITY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SUNS-VOC; AGING CONDITIONS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION;

SOLAR CELLS; THERMAL STRESS;

EID: 84905026626     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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