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Consensus stability testing protocols for organic photovoltaic materials and devices
Matthew O. Reese,Suren A. Gevorgyan,Mikkel Jørgensen,Eva Bundgaard,Sarah Kurtz,David S. Ginley,Dana C. Olson,Matthew T. Lloyd,Pasquale Morvillo,Eugene A. Katz,Andreas Elschner,Olivier Haillant,Travis Currier,Vishal Shrotriya,Martin Hermenau,Moritz Riede,Kiril R. Kirov,Gregor Trimmel,Thomas Rath,Olle Inganäs,Fengling Zhang,Mattias Andersson,Kristofer Tvingstedt,Monica Lira-Cantu,Darin W. Laird,Christine McGuiness,Srinivas (Jimmy) Gowrisanker,Michael Pannone,Min Xiao,Jens Hauch,Roland Steim,Dean M. DeLongchamp,Roland Rösch,Harald Hoppe,Nieves Espinosa,Antonio Urbina,Gülsah Yaman-Uzunoglu,Jörg-Bernd Bonekamp,Albert J.J.M. van Breemen,Claudio Girotto,Eszter Voroshazi,Frederik C. Krebs +41 more
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Procedures for testing organic solar cell devices and modules with respect to stability and operational lifetime are described and generally agreed test conditions and practices are generally agreed to allow ready comparison between laboratories and to help improving the reliability of reported values.About:
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Enhancement of organic solar cell efficiency by altering the zinc oxide photoanode nanostructure morphology
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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of zinc oxide nanostructure configurations, as photo-anode formations of organic solar cells, on the performance of power conversion were examined. And the nano-rod-structured photoanodes showed a 0.22-V rise in the open-circuit voltage, from 0.76 to 0.98-V, and a 2.08 times increment in the overall conversion performance.
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The Role of the Electron Transport Layer in the Degradation of Organic Photovoltaic Cells
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Ultralow Temperature Glass Frit Encapsulation for Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
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