Light harvesting improvement of organic solar cells with self-enhanced active layer designs

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 8175-8185

  Chen, Luzhou ^a   Sha, Wei E I ^a   Choy, Wallace C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ACTIVE LAYER; EFFICIENT SCATTERING MATRIX METHOD; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; GRADIENT TYPE; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL PATH; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; VOLUME INTEGRALS;

DESIGN;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84859417873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008175     Document Type: Article

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