Conjugated polymer-based photovoltaic devices

Conjugated Polymers: Processing and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 10-1-10-37

  Mozer, A J ^a,b   Sariciftci, N S ^a  

^a Graduate School of Engineering   (Japan)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

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