Efficient nanocoax-based solar cells

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 181-183

  Naughton, M J ^a,b   Kempa, K ^a,b   Ren, Z F ^a,b   Gao, Y ^a   Rybczynski, J ^b   Argenti, N ^b   Gao, W ^b   Wang, Y ^b   Peng, Y ^a   Naughton, J R ^a   McMahon, G ^a   Paudel, T ^a   Lan, Y C ^a   Burns, M J ^b   Shepard, A ^b   Clary, M ^b   Ballif, C ^c   Haug, F J ^c   Soderstrom T ^c   Cubero, O ^c   Eminian, C ^c   more..

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Solasta Inc   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nanocoax; Nanoscale; Photovoltaics; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

HIGH EFFICIENCY; LIGHT-INDUCED DEGRADATION; LOW COSTS; NANOSCALE; NANOSTRUCTURED THIN FILM; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RADIO TECHNOLOGIES; SOLAR ARCHITECTURE; SOLAR POWER; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; THIN FILMS;

CELLS;

EID: 77954812073     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201004154     Document Type: Article

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