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Solar cell electrodes could turn market to gold

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Marie Freebody, Contributing Editor, [email protected]

A university spinout company wants to put the Midas touch on the organic solar cell market through the use of gold-coated electrodes. Molecular Solar, the commercializing force behind the University of Warwick’s endeavors in solar cell development, believes that gold is the ideal material to replace the traditional indium tin oxide (ITO) for electrode coating and that it may enable mass production on flexible substrates. Currently, ITO-coated glass is the most widely used transparent electrode for organic solar cells; however, this is largely due to the absence of a viable...Read full article

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    Published: June 2011
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    indium tin oxide
    A material widely used as a transparent conductive coating.
    Advantage West MidlandsBasic ScienceenergyEngineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEPSRCERDFEuropean Regional Development FundGold-coated electrodesGreenLightHattonindium tin oxideinterconnectsITOLight SourcesMarie FreebodyMaterials & ChemicalsMolecular SolarnanoelectronicnanophotonicOLEDs organic light emitting diodesOpticsorganic solar cellplastic substratesroll-to-roll vacuum evaporationRoss HattonRoyal Academy of Engineeringsmall-molecule semiconductorssolventTim JonesUniversity of WarwickLEDs

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