Near field enhanced photocurrent generation in P-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xu, Xiaobao ^a   Cui, Jin ^a   Han, Junbo ^b   Zhang, Junpei ^b   Zhang, Yibo ^a   Luan, Lin ^a   Alemu, Getachew ^a   Wang, Zhong ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Xiong, Dehua ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Wei, Zhanhua ^c   Yang, Shihe ^c   Hu, Bin ^a,d   Cheng, Yibing ^a,e   Wang, Mingkui ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d University of Tennessee   (United States)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84893857556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03961     Document Type: Article

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