Light trapping in solar cells: can periodic beat random?

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  ACS Nano

• Publication date

  2012-03-07

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics, Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1021/nn300287jPMID 22375932
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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