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Roll‐to‐Roll Coatings: New Low‐Bandgap Materials with Good Stabilities and Efficiencies Comparable to P3HT in R2R‐Coated Solar Cells (Adv. Energy Mater. 4/2012)
Author(s) -
Søndergaard Roar,
Manceau Matthieu,
Jørgensen Mikkel,
Krebs Frederik C.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
advanced energy materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.08
H-Index - 220
eISSN - 1614-6840
pISSN - 1614-6832
DOI - 10.1002/aenm.201290020
Subject(s) - materials science , roll to roll processing , polymer , throughput , band gap , optoelectronics , organic solar cell , nanotechnology , photovoltaic system , composite material , electrical engineering , telecommunications , computer science , engineering , wireless
Organic solar cells have reached the large‐scale manufacturing stage. If extremely cheap high‐throughput production is to be realized, they have to be manufactured in ambient conditions without the use of vacuum steps. Despite enormous efforts put into developing new low‐bandgap (LBG) polymers, until now, the only real candidate which has been stable enough for processing in air has been the well known polymer P3HT. On page 415 R. Søndergaard and co‐workers present two new LBG polymers stable enough for processing using roll‐to‐roll methods.