Tandem polymer solar cells featuring a spectrally matched low-bandgap polymer

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 180-185

  Dou, Letian ^a   You, Jingbi ^a   Yang, Jun ^a   Chen, Chun Chao ^a   He, Youjun ^a   Murase, Seiichiro ^a,c   Moriarty, Tom ^b   Emery, Keith ^b   Li, Gang ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TORAY INDUSTRIES INC   (Japan)

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EID: 84862776807     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.356     Document Type: Article

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