Developing environmentally benign routes for semiconductor synthesis: Improved approaches to the solution deposition of cadmium sulfide for solar cell applications

Green Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 79-85

  Bayer, Alexander ^a   Boyle, David S ^a,c   Heinrich, Markus R ^a   O'Brien, Paul ^b   Otway, David J ^a   Robbe, Odile ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0011837355     PISSN: 14639262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a909257i     Document Type: Article

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