Laser-scribing patterning for the production of organometallic halide perovskite solar modules

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1087-1092

  Moon, Soo Jin ^a   Yum, Jun Ho ^a   Lofgren, Linus ^a   Walter, Arnaud ^b   Sansonnens, Laurent ^a   Benkhaira, Mustapha ^a   Nicolay, Sylvain ^a   Bailat, Julien ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a,b  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hybrid solar cells; laser scribing; monolithic module; organometallic halide perovskite; photovoltaic cells; Series interconnection

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ORGANOMETALLICS; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

HALIDE PEROVSKITES; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; LASER SCRIBING; MONOLITHIC MODULE; SERIES INTERCONNECTION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85027930670     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2015.2416913     Document Type: Article

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