Characteristics of thin films fabricated by spray coating on rough and permeable paper substrates

Journal of Coatings Technology and Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 489-503

  Zabihi, Fatemeh ^a   Eslamian, Morteza ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Moving substrate; Paper solar cells; Paper based substrate; Photovoltaics; Solution processed solar cells; Spray coating; Spray painting; Spray on solar cells; Substrate vibration

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COATINGS; FABRICATION; PAINT SPRAYING; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SPRAY NOZZLES; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; WETTING;

CHARACTERIZATION TOOLS; COATING CHARACTERISTICS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SPRAY COATING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84938056284     PISSN: 15470091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11998-015-9656-5     Document Type: Article

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