Many-body Green's function study of coumarins for dye-sensitized solar cells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Faber, Carina ^a   Duchemin, Ivan ^b   Deutsch, Thierry ^b   Blase, Xavier ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

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EID: 84867810382     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.155315     Document Type: Article

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