Nanostructured solar cells for high efficiency photovoltaics

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 2565-2568

  Honsberg, Christiana B ^a   Barnett, Allen M ^a   Kirkpatrick, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; THERMODYNAMICS;

COST FABRICATION; HIGH EFFICIENCY PHOTOVOLTAICS; NANOSTRUCTURED SOLAR CELLS; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749125172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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