Nanostructured inorganic solar cells

Green

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-27

  Musselman, Kevin P ^a   Schmidt Mende, Lukas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

inorganic; nanostructured; Photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896692883     PISSN: 1869876X     EISSN: 18698778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/green.2011.007     Document Type: Review

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