Overview of Polymer and Copolymer Materials for Organic Photovoltaics

Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies: Second Edition

Volumn 9783527332250, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-26

  Economopoulos, Solon P ^a   Itskos, Grigorios ^b   Koutentis, Panayiotis A ^b   Choulis, Stelios A ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

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ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS;

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DOI: 10.1002/9783527656912.ch01     Document Type: Chapter

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