Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 174-177

  Polman, Albert ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; PHOTON;

NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; SILICON;

EID: 84857295129     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3263     Document Type: Note

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