Compound semiconductor nanowire solar cells

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1033-1049

  Sun, Ke ^a   Kargar, Alireza ^a   Park, Namsoek ^a   Madsen, Kristian N ^a   Naughton, Perry W ^a   Bright, Timothy ^a,b   Jing, Yi ^a   Wang, Deli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Oral Robert University   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound semiconductor; nanowires; solar cell

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; NANOWIRE SYNTHESIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY;

ENERGY HARVESTING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80051685157     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2090342     Document Type: Review

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