Effect of gold nanopillar arrays on the absorption spectrum of a bulk heterojunction organic solar cell

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 104, 2010, Pages A528-A535

  Tsai, Shu Ju ^a,b   Ballarotto, Mihaela ^a,b   Romero, Danilo B ^a,b   Herman, Warren N ^b   Kan, Hung Chih ^a,b,c   Phaneuf, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SOLAR CELLS;

ACTIVE LAYER; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CONTROLLED SIZE; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; NANO-PILLAR ARRAYS; NANOPILLAR; NANOPILLARS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PARTICLE PLASMONS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 78149417478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.00A528     Document Type: Article

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