Enhanced quantum efficiency of solar cells with self-assembled Ge dots stacked in multilayer structure

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1258-1260

  Alguno, Arnold ^a   Usami, Noritaka ^a   Ujihara, Toru ^a   Fujiwara, Kozo ^a   Sazaki, Gen ^a   Nakajima, Kazuo ^a   Shiraki, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GERMANIUM; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MULTILAYERS; PHOTOCURRENTS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MULTILAYER ARRAYS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0042425855     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1600838     Document Type: Article

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