Emergent models for artificial light-harvesting

Frontiers in Materials

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Creatore, Celestino ^a   Chin, Alex W ^a   Parker, Michael A ^a   Emmott, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial nanostructures; Artificial photosynthesis; Quantum coherence; Quantum effects in biology; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR CELLS;

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT HARVESTING; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM EFFECTS;

ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 85026288708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22968016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmats.2015.00006     Document Type: Review

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