Optical spectrum of bottom-up graphene nanoribbons: Towards efficient atom-thick excitonic solar cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Villegas, Cesar E P ^a   Mendonca P B ^b   Rocha, A R ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 84923294269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06579     Document Type: Article

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