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Manufacture And Investigation Of Organic Composite Polymer Based Films For Advanced Flexible Solar Cells, Raffie Arshak
Manufacture And Investigation Of Organic Composite Polymer Based Films For Advanced Flexible Solar Cells, Raffie Arshak
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Modern society has created big challenges in the area of sustainable supply of energy to satisfy the needs of growing population and to account for depleting fossil fuel resources. The Irish Government has set targets for the energy sector by 2020, with 33% of electricity to be generated from renewable sources. Organic photovoltaic devices offer several advantages over expensive silicon solar cells, including deposition of ultra-thin films by spin-coating, printing and spray-coating. This in turn provides for the exciting possibility to make lightweight, flexible solar cells for a broad range of existing and emerging applications for security, military and medicine. …