Strong and reversible modulation of carbon nanotube-silicon heterojunction solar cells by an interfacial oxide layer

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8391-8396

  Jia, Yi ^a   Cao, Anyuan ^b   Kang, Feiyu ^a   Li, Peixu ^a   Gui, Xuchun ^c   Zhang, Luhui ^b   Shi, Enzheng ^b   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Zhu, Hongwei ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84862226512     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp23639g     Document Type: Article

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