Light coupling into the Whispering Gallery Modes of a fiber array thin film solar cell for fixed partial Sun tracking

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mariano, Marina ^a   Rodríguez, Francisco J ^a   Romero Gomez, Pablo ^a   Kozyreff, Gregory ^b   Martorell, Jordi ^a,c  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

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EID: 84901004388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04959     Document Type: Article

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