Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources

By B. Tian, Xiaolin Zheng, T. Kempa, Ying Fang, N. Yu, Guihua Yu, Jinlin Huang, Charles M. Lieber. Nature, 2007

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