Plasmonic backcontact grating for P3HT:PCBM organic solar cells enabling strong optical absorption increased in all polarizations

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14200-14209

  Sefunc, Mustafa Akin ^a,b   Okyay, Ali Kemal ^a,b   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^a,b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; SOLAR CELLS; SUN;

ACTIVE LAYER; ACTIVE MATERIAL; INCIDENCE ANGLES; METALLIC GRATINGS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PEDOT:PSS; PLASMONIC; TRANSVERSE-ELECTRIC POLARIZATIONS;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 79960549001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014200     Document Type: Article

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