ITO-free transparent organic solar cell with distributed bragg reflector for solar harvesting windows

Energies

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Peng, Yuelin ^a   Zhang, Lushuai ^b   Cheng, Nongyi ^c   Andrew, Trisha L ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector; Organic photovoltaic; Transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ETHYLENE; FILM PREPARATION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; REFLECTION; SILICA; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES; ZINC OXIDE;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR MIRRORS; MULTILAYER ELECTRODES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) (PET); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL STRUCTURES; TRANSPARENT DEVICES; VISIBLE TRANSMITTANCE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85023741707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en10050707     Document Type: Article

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