Exchanging ohmic losses in metamaterial absorbers with useful optical absorption for photovoltaics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Vora, Ankit ^a   Gwamuri, Jephias ^a   Pala, Nezih ^b   Kulkarni, Anand ^a   Pearce, Joshua M ^a   Güney, Durdu O ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b Florida International University   (United States)

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EID: 84901006417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04901     Document Type: Article

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