CuI-Si heterojunction solar cells with carbon nanotube films as flexible top-contact electrodes

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 979-986

  Li, Peixu ^a   Wang, Shanshan ^b,c   Jia, Yi ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Ji, Chunyan ^c   Zhang, Luhui ^c   Li, Hongbian ^c   Shi, Enzheng ^c   Bian, Zuqiang ^b   Huang, Chunhui ^b   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Zhu, Hongwei ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a   Cao, Anyuan ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; flexible electrodes; heterojunction solar cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053436071     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0154-5     Document Type: Article

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