Enhancing photovoltaic power by Fano-induced coherence

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Svidzinsky, Anatoly A ^a,b   Dorfman, Konstantin E ^a,b   Scully, Marlan O ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL POWER; EXTERNAL ENERGY SOURCES; FANO INTERFERENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 81055124099     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.053818     Document Type: Article

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