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<p id="cite"><span class="journalname">Nature Materials</span> <br />Published online: 5 July 2009 | <span class="doi"><abbr title="Digital Object Identifier">doi</abbr>:10.1038/nmat2493</span></p><p id="errorcor"></p><h2 id="atl">Three-dimensional nanopillar-array photovoltaics on low-cost and flexible substrates</h2><p id="aug">Zhiyong Fan<sup><a title="affiliated with " href="#a1">1</a>,</sup><sup><a title="affiliated with " href="#a2">2</a>,</sup><sup><a title="affiliated with " href="#a3">3</a></sup>,
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720,
USA
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Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, California 94720, USA
</li></ol><p class="caff">Correspondence to: Ali Javey<sup><a title="affiliated with " href="#a1">1</a>,</sup><sup><a title="affiliated with " href="#a2">2</a>,</sup><sup><a title="affiliated with " href="#a3">3</a></sup> 

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