Substrate-induced interfacial plasmonics for photovoltaic conversion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Xinxi ^a   Jia, Chuancheng ^b   Ma, Bangjun ^b   Wang, Wei ^b   Fang, Zheyu ^b   Zhang, Guoqing ^a   Guo, Xuefeng ^b  

^a GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84942795850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14497     Document Type: Article

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