Optical rectenna solar cells using graphene geometric diodes

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 002120-002122

  Zhu, Zixu ^a   Grover, Sachit ^a   Krueger, Kendra ^a   Moddel, Garret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; DRUDE MODELS; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MIM DIODES; RECTENNAS; ULTRA HIGH SPEED;

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GEOMETRY; GRAPHENE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

DIODES;

EID: 84861030737     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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