Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7164, 2007, Pages 885-889

  Tian, Bozhi ^a   Zheng, Xiaolin ^a   Kempa, Thomas J ^a   Fang, Ying ^a   Yu, Nanfang ^b   Yu, Guihua ^a   Huang, Jinlin ^a   Lieber, Charles M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; NANOWIRE; SILICON;

LOW TEMPERATURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POLYMER; SILICON; SOLAR POWER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ILLUMINATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 35348984409     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06181     Document Type: Article

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