Plasmonic effects for light concentration in organic photovoltaic thin films induced by hexagonal periodic metallic nanospheres

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Zhu, Jinfeng ^a,b   Xue, Mei ^a   Shen, Huajun ^a   Wu, Zhe ^b   Kim, Seongku ^a   Ho, Jyh Jier ^a   Hassani Afshar, Aram ^a   Zeng, Baoqing ^b   Wang, Kang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; HYBRID STRUCTURE; INCIDENT LIGHT; LIGHT CONCENTRATION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; LOW BAND GAP; METALLIC NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSPARENT ANODES;

ABSORPTION; ENERGY GAP; NANOSPHERES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 79954603860     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3577611     Document Type: Article

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