Plasmonic core-shell nanoparticle enhanced optical absorption in thin film organic solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 000924-000928

  Qu, Di ^a   Liu, Fang ^a   Pan, Xujie ^a   Yu, Jiafan ^a   Li, Xiangdong ^a   Xie, Wanlu ^a   Xu, Qi ^a   Huang, Yidong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ACTIVE LAYER; BULK RECOMBINATION; CORE-SHELL; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; DIELECTRIC SHELLS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT EFFECT; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; METAL CORE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; PLASMONIC; SODIUM CITRATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXCITONS; FILM THICKNESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SODIUM; SOLAR CELLS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIN FILMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84861052652     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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