The interplay between structure, processing, and properties in organic photovoltaic devices: how to translate recent lab

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The interplay between structure, processing, and properties in organic photovoltaic devices: how to translate recent laboratory-scale developments to modules Caroline Grand and John R. Reynolds, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Address all correspondence John R. Reynolds at [email protected] (Received 17 February 2015; accepted 20 April 2015)

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