Favourable photovoltaic effects in InGaN pin homojunction solar cell

Electronics Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 1266-1267

  Cai, X M ^a   Zeng, S W ^a   Zhang, B P ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILL FACTOR; HIGH POTENTIAL; HOMOJUNCTION; SHORT WAVELENGTHS;

SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 70549113770     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2009.2094     Document Type: Article

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