Fully gravure printed organic photovoltaic modules: A straightforward process with a high potential for large scale production

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 144, Issue , 2016, Pages 724-731

  Kapnopoulos, Christos ^a   Mekeridis, Evangelos D ^b   Tzounis, Lazaros ^a   Polyzoidis, Christos ^a   Zachariadis, Alexandros ^a   Tsimikli, Sofia ^a,b   Gravalidis, Christoforos ^a   Laskarakis, Argiris ^a   Vouroutzis, Nikolaos ^a   Logothetidis, Stergios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Organic Electronic Technologies PC (OET)   (Greece)

Author keywords

Flexible organic photovoltaics; Gravure printing; Module; P3HT:PCBM bulk heterojunction; Spectroscopic ellipsometry

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELLIPSOMETRY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MANUFACTURE; OFFSET PRINTING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; PRINTING; PRINTING PRESSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; SUBSTRATES; THROUGHPUT; TIN OXIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; GRAVURE PRINTING; MODULE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 84946434319     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.10.021     Document Type: Article

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