Organic Photovoltaic Devices: Low Substrate Temperature Encapsulation for Flexible Electrodes and Organic Photovoltaics (Adv. Energy Mater. 6/2015)

In article number 1401442, Karen K. Gleason and co-workers report a novel bilayer encapsulation strategy based on initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD). This damage-free and solvent-free method provides conformal and flexible protection to organic photovoltaic devices. For the first time, a vapor-deposited UV-screening layer of CeO2 is applied on organic photovoltaics as an encapsulation material.