Roll-to-roll printing of organic photovoltaic cells and modules

Organic photovoltaics (OPV) has gained considerable interest being flexible, light weight and transparent. OPVs can be processed by using roll-to-roll (R2R) printing and coating methods which can lead to significant manufacturing cost reduction. Gravure printing brings the advantage of layer patterning directly in the printing process. Importantly, this increases product design freedom by enabling large-area arbitrary shape and size structures.

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