Colored ultrathin hybrid photovoltaics with high quantum efficiency

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Kyu Tae ^a   Lee, Jae Yong ^a   Seo, Sungyong ^a   Guo, L Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

color filters; nanocavities; organic inorganic nanostructures; photovoltaics; spectrum splitting

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; LIGHT; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS;

COLOR FILTERS; NANO-CAVITIES; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SPECTRUM SPLITTING;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84923222409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2014.96     Document Type: Article

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