Optimizing performance parameters of graphene-silicon and thin transparent graphite-silicon heterojunction solar cells

Carbon

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 329-337

  An, Xiaohong ^a   Liu, Fangze ^a   Kar, Swastik ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HIGH QUALITY; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; MONOLAYERS; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84875264372     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.01.080     Document Type: Article

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