Aperiodic TiO2 nanotube photonic crystal: Full-visible-spectrum solar light harvesting in photovoltaic devices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Guo, Min ^a   Xie, Keyu ^b   Wang, Yu ^a   Zhou, Limin ^a   Huang, Haitao ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84923338644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06442     Document Type: Article

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