Coaxial multishell nanowires with high-quality electronic interfaces and tunable optical cavities for ultrathin photovoltaics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1407-1412

  Kempa, Thomas J ^a   Cahoon, James F ^a,d   Kim, Sun Kyung ^a,b   Day, Robert W ^a   Bell, David C ^c   Park, Hong Gyu ^b   Lieber, Charles M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanodevices; Nanomaterials; Nanophotonics; Optical nanocavities; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; NANOWIRE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; DIODE; ELECTRONICS; FILM; ILLUMINATION; NANODEVICE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; THICKNESS;

ELECTRONICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOWIRES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84863115681     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120415109     Document Type: Article

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