Light-harvesting using high density p-type single wall carbon nanotube/n-type silicon heterojunctions

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1407-1414

  Li, Zhongrui ^a   Kunets, Vasyl P ^b   Saini, Viney ^a   Xu, Yang ^a   Dervishi, Enkeleda ^a   Salamo, Gregory J ^b   Biris, Alexandru R ^c   Biris, Alexandru S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ISOTOPIC AND MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

Author keywords

N type Si; P n heterojunction; P type swnt; Photovoltaic device; Thionyl chloride

Indexed keywords

N-TYPE SI; P-N HETEROJUNCTION; P-TYPE SWNT; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE; THIONYL CHLORIDE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CARRIER MOBILITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISTILLATION; HARVESTING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 67651225491     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900197h     Document Type: Article

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