Electrical and optical interconnection for mechanically stacked multi-junction solar cells mediated by metal nanoparticle arrays

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Mizuno, Hidenori ^a   Makita, Kikuo ^a   Matsubara, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN INTERFACE; FILL FACTOR; INTERFACIAL CONDUCTIVITY; METAL NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; TRANSMISSION LOSS; VAN DER WAALS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84869075149     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4766339     Document Type: Article

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