Plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cells using core-shell metal-insulator nanoparticles

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 438-445

  Brown, Michael D ^a   Suteewong, Teeraporn ^b   Kumar, R Sai Santosh ^c   D'Innocenzo, Valerio ^c   Petrozza, Annamaria ^c   Lee, Michael M ^a   Wiesner, Ulrich ^b   Snaith, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

dye sensitized; efficiency; photovoltaic; plasmonic; Solar cell; solid state

Indexed keywords

CORE-SHELL; DYE SENSITIZED; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FEMTOSECONDS; IODIDE/TRI-IODIDE; METAL INSULATORS; OSCILLATION DAMPING; PHOTOCARRIER GENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PLASMONIC; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

COLORING AGENT; GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLORING AGENTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79851487314     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1031106     Document Type: Article

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