New barrier encapsulation and lifetime assessment of printed organic photovoltaic modules

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The authors wish to thank Eustathios Petinakis (CSIRO Manufacturing) for use of melt-compression equipment used for fabricating the EVA films, and Karl Weber (CSIRO Manufacturing) for assistance with data analysis. This research was supported financially through funding to the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) from a Victorian Government Department of Primary Industries' Sustainable Energy Research and Development Grant; a Victorian Government Department of Business and Innovation's Victoria's Science Agenda Grant; and grants from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP). HW gratefully acknowledges receipt of a Postdoctoral Fellowship from ARENA.