Plasmons for enhancing solar cells

Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, Proceedings, COMMAD

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 121-122

  Catchpole, K R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECTS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONIC; RECENT PROGRESS;

PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS;

MICROELECTRONICS;

EID: 79951730811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMMAD.2010.5699692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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