Metal nanoparticles in a photovoltaic cell: Effect of metallic loss

AIP Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Ryosuke ^a,b   Miyano, Kenjiro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EFFECTIVE CONTINUOUS MEDIUMS; METALLIC LOSS; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; NANOPARTICLE LAYERS; NEAR FIELDS; PHOTOABSORPTIONS; TOTAL EFFICIENCY;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84855374145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3665682     Document Type: Article

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