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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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The significance of fullerene electron acceptors in organic solar cell photo-oxidation
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Thermosetting Polyurethane Resins as Low-Cost, Easily Scalable, and Effective Oxygen and Moisture Barriers for Perovskite Solar Cells.
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Size effect of synthetic saponite-clay in quasi-solid electrolyte for dye-sensititized solar cells
Daniele Costenaro,Chiara Bisio,Fabio Carniato,Giorgio Gatti,Frédéric Oswald,Toby B. Meyer,Leonardo Marchese +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the use of a synthetic saponite-clay with different morphological features is proposed as additive for DSSC solar cells electrolyte, and the effect of these parameters on solar cell performances has been tested by dispersing 5% of the clay in Z-946 liquid electrolyte and using the dispersion as non-liquid electrolyte.
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Root-Cause Failure Analysis of Photocurrent Loss in Polythiophene:Fullerene-Based Inverted Solar Cells
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Improving the performance of inverted polymer solar cells by the efficiently doping and modification of electron transport layer-ZnO
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