Mechanism of optical absorption enhancement in thin film organic solar cells with plasmonic metal nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24795-24803

  Qu, Di ^a   Liu, Fang ^a   Huang, Yidong ^a   Xie, Wanlu ^a   Xu, Qi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

ACTIVE LAYER; ANODE LAYERS; ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM; METAL NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PEDOT:PSS; PLASMONIC; THREE-DIMENSION;

SILVER;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; SILVER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 82055205064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024795     Document Type: Article

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