Highly efficient light-trapping structure design inspired by natural evolution

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Chen ^a   Yu, Shuangcheng ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Sun, Cheng ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

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EID: 84872726803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01025     Document Type: Article

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