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Fabrication and Characterization of GaAsP Nanowire-on-Silicon Tandem Photovoltaic Cells

Wood, 2017

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One-dimensional vertical nanostructures, nanowire arrays, are investigated for applications in photovoltaics. Specifically, III-V core-shell pin nanowire arrays are grown by molecular beam epitaxy on silicon substrates, using the self-assisted vapour-liquid-solid growth …
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