Optical design of organic solar cell with hybrid plasmonic system

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 15908-15918

  Sha, Wei E I ^a   Choy, Wallace C H ^a   Chen, Yongpin P ^a   Chew, Weng Cho ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NANOSPHERES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURFACE WAVES;

ACTIVE MATERIAL; ACTIVE POLYMERS; CAVITY DEVICES; DECAY LENGTH; DISPERSION RELATIONS; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; METAL LAYER; OPTICAL ENHANCEMENTS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PLASMONIC; RIGOROUS SOLUTION; SURFACE PLASMON WAVES; SYMMETRIC SURFACE WAVE; THEORETICAL MODELS; VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 80051745870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015908     Document Type: Article

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