Evidence of significant down-conversion in a Si-based solar cell using CuInS2/ZnS core shell quantum dots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Gardelis, Spiros ^a   Nassiopoulou, Androula G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

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EID: 84900385335     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4875616     Document Type: Article

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