Large Stokes Shift and High Efficiency Luminescent Solar Concentrator Incorporated with CuInS 2 /ZnS Quantum Dots

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Chen ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Wu, Dan ^b   Quan, Dunhang ^a   Zhou, Ziming ^a   Hao, Junjie ^a   Qin, Jing ^a   Li, Yiwen ^a   He, Zhubing ^a   Wang, Kai ^a  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 84949595540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17777     Document Type: Article

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