Semiconducting carbon nanotube/fullerene blended heterojunctions for photovoltaic near-infrared photon harvesting

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1174-1179

  Bindl, Dominick J ^a   Brewer, Adam S ^a   Arnold, Michael S ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; Carbon nanotube; NIR; photodetector; photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955163664     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0167-0     Document Type: Article

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