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Developing High Performance GaP/Si Heterojunction Solar Cells
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Piezoelectric-polarization-enhanced photovoltaic performance in depleted-heterojunction quantum-dot solar cells
Jian Shi1, Ping Zhao, Xudong Wang
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|November 28, 2012
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