Plasmon enhancement of organic photovoltaic efficiency in tandem cells of pentacene/C60

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6641, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pan, Shanlin ^a   Rothberg, Lewis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Organic photovoltaic; Plasmon enhanced absorption; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PENTACENE; PLASMON-ENHANCED ABSORPTION; POWER EFFICIENCY;

LIGHTING; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 42149104362     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.736011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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