Low density of gold nanorods in the anodic layer for enhancing the efficiency of organic solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8007, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mahmoud, Alaa Y ^a   Zhang, Jianming ^b   Baral, Jayanta K ^a,c   Izquierdo, Ricardo ^c   Ma, Dongling ^b   Packirisamy, Muthukuraman ^a   Truong, Vo Van ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

anodic layer; gold nanorods; Organic bulk heterojunction; solar cell; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ANODE LAYERS; ANODIC LAYERS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; CONTROL DEVICE; GOLD NANOROD; GOLD NANORODS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; LOW DENSITY; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOGENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PLASMON PEAKS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE PLASMONS; VARIOUS DENSITIES;

BUTYRIC ACID; CONTROL; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT; FATTY ACIDS; GOLD; NANORODS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 80053000434     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.904055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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