Plasmon-enhanced optical absorption and photocurrent in organic bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices using self-assembled layer of silver nanoparticles

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-132

  Yoon, Woo Jun ^a   Jung, Kyung Young ^a   Liu, Jiwen ^b   Duraisamy, Thirumalai ^b   Revur, Rao ^b   Teixeira, Fernando L ^a   Sengupta, Suvankar ^b   Berger, Paul R ^a,c  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b MetaMateria Partners   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ag nanoparticle; Organic bulk heterojunction; Photovoltaic; Solar cell; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

AG NANOPARTICLE; AIR MASS; AVERAGE DIAMETER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; CURRENT EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT INTENSITY; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; ORGANIC CAPPING; PARTICLE SPACING; PHOTOACTIVE FILMS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; PHOTOGENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; PLASMON RESONANCES; POLY-THIOPHENE; REFERENCE DEVICES; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SHORT-CIRCUIT CONDITIONS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRAL RANGE;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MONOLAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SILVER;

EID: 72149131749     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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