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It is indeed intriguing and very attractive to think of photovoltaic elements based on thin plastic films with low cost but large areas, cut from rolls and deployed on permanent structures and surfaces. In order to fulfil these requirements, cheap production technologies for large scale coating must be applied to a low cost material class. Polymer photovoltaic cells hold the potential of such low cost cells. Flexible chemical tailoring of desired properties, combined with the cheap technology already well developed for all kinds of plastic thin film applications, precisely fulfill the above-formulated demands for cheap photovoltaic device production. The mechanical flexibility of plastic materials is welcome for all photovoltaic applications onto curved surfaces in indoor as well as outdoor applications.
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Brabec, C.J., Dyakonov, V. (2003). Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Bulk Heterojunction Composites. In: Brabec, C.J., Dyakonov, V., Parisi, J., Sariciftci, N.S. (eds) Organic Photovoltaics. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05187-0_1
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