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Shannon W Boettcher1, Joshua M Spurgeon, Morgan C Putnam

  • 1Kavli Nanoscience Institute and Beckman Institute, 1200 East California Boulevard, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 9, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,太陽エネルギー変換のための効率的なシリコンワイヤー配列を開発しました. これらの配列は,以前の性能制限を克服し,光伏と水素発電の有望さを示しています.

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