Lowerature Synthesis of Bismuth Chalcohalides: Candidate Photovoltaic Materials with Easily, Continuously Controllable Band gap

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kunioku, Hironobu ^a   Higashi, Masanobu ^a   Abe, Ryu ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 84987680074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep32664     Document Type: Article

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