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Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-film Solar cells with Plasmonic-enhanced Light-trapping
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Published on: July 2, 2012

Harry A Atwater1, Albert Polman

  • 1Caltech Center for Sustainable Energy Research and Thomas J. Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. haa@caltech.edu

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|February 20, 2010
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