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Nathaniel M Gabor1, Justin C W Song, Qiong Ma

  • 1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 8, 2011
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,グラフェンp-n結合でユニークな光電圧パターンを観察し,熱キャリア輸送が光電子反応を支配することを示しました. この発見は,太陽エネルギー採集技術の進歩につながる可能性がある.

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