Annealing effects on surface-plasmon-enhanced bulk heterojunction, organic photovoltaics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6656, Issue , 2007, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b InDevR LLC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCY (IPCE); METHANOFULLERENE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE (P3HT);

AROMATIC POLYMERS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 42149114480     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.735480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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