Monolithic DSSC/CIGS tandem solar cell fabricated by a solution process

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Moon, Sung Hwan ^a   Park, Se Jin ^a,b   Kim, Sang Hoon ^a   Lee, Min Woo ^a   Han, Jisu ^a,b   Kim, Jin Young ^a   Kim, Honggon ^a   Hwang, Yun Jeong ^a   Lee, Doh Kwon ^a   Min, Byoung Koun ^a,b  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84924787593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08970     Document Type: Article

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