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International Journal of Photoenergy
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 829463, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/829463
Research Article
Silver Nanoparticle-Doped Titanium Oxide Thin Films for Intermediate Layers in Organic Tandem Solar Cell
Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA
Received 25 September 2012; Accepted 31 December 2012
Academic Editor: K. N. Narayanan Unni
Copyright © 2013 Wanyi Nie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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