Prospects of graphene electrodes in photovoltaics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8824, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Khatami, Yasin ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Kang, Jiahao ^a   Banerjee, Kaustav ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphene; Photovoltaics; Transparent conductor

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS; ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; GRAPHENE ELECTRODES; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; SOLAR ENERGY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84886698477     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2026581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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