Increasing the efficiency of polymer solar cells by silicon nanowires

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 31, 2011, Pages

  Eisenhawer, B ^a   Sensfuss, S ^b   Sivakov, V ^a   Pietsch, M ^a,c   Andra G ^a   Falk, F ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EFFICIENCY; CELL PERFORMANCE; ORGANIC/INORGANIC; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; REEL-TO-REEL PROCESS; SILICON NANOWIRES;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 79960806752     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/31/315401     Document Type: Article

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