Plasmon-enhanced solar energy conversion in organic bulk heterojunction photovoltaics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Morfa, Anthony J ^a   Rowlen, Kathy L ^a,c   Reilly II, Thomas H ^b   Romero, Manuel J ^b   Van De Lagemaat, Jao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c InDevR LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ENERGY CONVERSION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SOLAR ENERGY;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 38049003473     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2823578     Document Type: Article

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