Optical anisotropy in single-walled carbon nanotube thin films: Implications for transparent and conducting electrodes in organic photovoltaics

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2176-2179

  Fanchini, Giovanni ^a   Miller, Steve ^a   Parekh, Bhavin B ^a   Chhowalla, Manish ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DEPENDENCES; COMPLEX DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; COMPLEX DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; CONDUCTING ELECTRODES; DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; IMAGINARY PARTS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; OUT OF PLANES; PHOTON ENERGIES; REAL PARTS; SPARSE NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; TWO COMPONENTS;

CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; THIN FILMS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 61449191979     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl080563p     Document Type: Article

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