Extraordinary sunlight absorption and one nanometer thick photovoltaics using two-dimensional monolayer materials

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3664-3670

  Bernardi, Marco ^a   Palummo, Maurizia ^a,b   Grossman, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

graphene; Monolayer materials; photovoltaics; solar energy; sunlight absorption; transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

EXCITONIC SOLAR CELLS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SCHOTTKY BARRIERS; THICK ACTIVE LAYERS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; VISIBLE-LIGHT ABSORBANCE;

GRAPHENE; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TRANSITION METALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84880836099     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl401544y     Document Type: Article

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