Graphene-CdSe nanobelt solar cells with Tunable configurations

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 891-900

  Zhang, Luhui ^a   Fan, Lili ^b   Li, Zhen ^b   Shi, Enzheng ^a   Li, Xinming ^b   Li, Hongbian ^a   Ji, Chunyan ^a   Jia, Yi ^b   Wei, Jinquan ^b   Wang, Kunlin ^b   Zhu, Hongwei ^b   Wu, Dehai ^b   Cao, Anyuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CdSe nanobelts; Graphene; Schottky junction; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052282718     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0145-6     Document Type: Article

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