Photonic color filters integrated with organic solar cells for energy harvesting

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7055-7060

  Park, Hui Joon ^a   Xu, Ting ^a,b   Lee, Jae Yong ^a   Ledbetter, Abram ^a   Guo, L Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

color filter; display; dual function; photonic nanostructure; solar cell

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED ENERGY; COLOR DISPLAYS; COLOR FILTERS; COMPLEMENTARY COLORS; DISPLAY; DUAL FUNCTION; ELECTRO-OPTIC APPLICATIONS; ELECTRONIC MEDIA; ENERGY EFFICIENT; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURE; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; VISIBLE BAND;

COLOR; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 80053296448     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201767e     Document Type: Article

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