Plasmonic organic photovoltaic devices on transparent carbon nanotube films

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 860-864

  Kymakis, Emmanuel ^a   Stratakis, Emmanuel ^b   Koudoumas, Emmanuel ^a   Fotakis, Costas ^b,c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Nanocomposites; nanotubes; photovoltaic cells; plasmonic

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; COMBINATORIAL STUDIES; CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; EXCITON GENERATION; FILL FACTOR; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC; POLY(4-STYRENESULFONATE); POLYMER-FULLERENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SURFACE PLASMONS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

ABLATION; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ETHYLENE; GOLD; NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASMONS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 79952039563     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2102630     Document Type: Article

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