Efficient biologically inspired photocell enhanced by delocalized quantum states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 25, 2013, Pages

  Creatore, C ^a   Parker, M A ^a   Emmott, S ^b   Chin, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; NANOSCALE ARCHITECTURES; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES;

PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84890778704     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.253601     Document Type: Article

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