Peel-and-stick: Fabricating thin film solar cell on universal substrates

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lee, Chi Hwan ^a   Kim, Dong Rip ^b   Cho, In Sun ^a   William, Nemeth ^c   Wang, Qi ^c   Zheng, Xiaolin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; HYDROGENATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTRONICS; HYDROGENATION; NICKEL; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871756125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01000     Document Type: Article

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