Inkjet printing processing conditions for bulk-heterojunction solar cells using two high-performing conjugated polymer donors

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 474-480

  Hermerschmidt, Felix ^a   Papagiorgis, Paris ^b   Savva, Achilleas ^a   Christodoulou, Constantinos ^a   Itskos, Grigorios ^b   Choulis, Stelios A ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Inkjet printing and processing; Morphology; Organic photovoltaics; Printed electronics

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INK JET PRINTING; MORPHOLOGY; SILICON;

1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; LOW BAND GAP CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; PROCESSING CONDITION;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84907225613     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.07.050     Document Type: Article

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