Towards low-cost manufacturing of organic solar cells: Multi-criteria assessment of fabrication technologies

Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 977-982

  Espinosa, N ^a   Garcia Valverde R ^a   Garcia Cascales M S ^a   Urbina, A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coating and printing methods; Fuzzy numbers; Multi criteria decision making; Organic solar cells; TOPSIS method

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073389990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2172038X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24084/repqj08.547     Document Type: Article

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