Light harvesting in organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Duche D ^a   Drouard, E ^b   Simon, Jj ^a   Escoubas, L ^a   Torchio, Ph ^a   Le Rouzo, J ^a   Vedraine, S ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

FDTD computation; Organic solar cell; Photonic crystal; Slow Bloch Modes

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRODES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS;

1-D PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; 2-D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; FDTD COMPUTATIONS; METALLIC ELECTRODES; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; SLOW BLOCH MODES;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 79953813061     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.12.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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