All-oxide photovoltaics

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 3755-3764

  Rühle, Sven ^a   Anderson, Assaf Y ^a   Barad, Hannah Noa ^a   Kupfer, Benjamin ^a   Bouhadana, Yaniv ^a   Rosh Hodesh, Eli ^a   Zaban, Arie ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; COMBINATORIAL METHOD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; LIGHT ABSORBERS; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; METAL OXIDES; NON-TOXICITY; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PV SYSTEM;

MOS DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84871538766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3017039     Document Type: Review

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