Charge-carrier dynamics in hybrid plasmonic organic solar cells with Ag nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 25, 2011, Pages

  Xue, Mei ^a   Li, Lu ^a   Tremolet De Villers, Bertrand J ^a   Shen, Huajun ^a   Zhu, Jinfeng ^a   Yu, Zhibin ^a   Stieg, Adam Z ^a,b   Pei, Qibing ^a   Schwartz, Benjamin J ^a   Wang, Kang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AG NANOPARTICLE; AG PARTICLES; ENHANCED MOBILITY; HIGH CONCENTRATION; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTO-INDUCED CHARGE; PLASMONIC; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SUBNETWORKS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER MOBILITY; FATTY ACIDS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS;

SILVER;

EID: 79959592588     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3601742     Document Type: Article

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