Quantum-mechanical prediction of nanoscale photovoltaics

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1272-1277

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Meng, Lingyi ^a,b   Yam, Chiyung ^a,c   Chen, Guanhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

density functional tight binding; electron photon interaction; nonequilibrium Greens function; photocurrent; silicon nanowire

Indexed keywords

DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL TIGHT-BINDING; ELECTRON-PHOTON INTERACTIONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREENS FUNCTIONS; NONEQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL EFFECTS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL PREDICTIONS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL STUDY; SILICON NANOWIRES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOWIRES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84898071997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz5003154     Document Type: Article

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