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Recent Advancement in the Graphene/Metal Oxide Based Photovoltaic Cell

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Physics, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati -444 602, India
  • 2Department of Physics, Indira Mahavidyalaya, Kalamb-445 401, India
  • 3Department of Physics, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati -444 602, India

Res.J.chem.sci., Volume 6, Issue (11), Pages 51-54, November,18 (2016)

Abstract

The photovoltaic (PV) is very rapidly developing branch of technology, as it is concerned with energy demand. As reported, outstanding properties of graphene with metal oxides in part of introduction we will make design to study the different properties of such an efficient materials for PV technology. By analysing data available in literature of materials science, we will plan to investigate PV properties of graphene/CuO and graphene/Cu2O composite.

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