Strong, conductive carbon nanotube fibers as efficient hole collectors

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jia, Yi ^a   Li, Xiao ^a   Li, Peixu ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Cao, Anyuan ^b   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Zhu, Hongwei ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Fibers; Heterojunction; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOTUBES; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; STABILITY;

CARBON NANOTUBE FIBERS; CONDUCTIVE CARBON NANOTUBES; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; N TYPE SILICON; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84863286404     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-137     Document Type: Article

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