Photoabsorption-enhanced dye-sensitized solar cells using localized surface plasmon of gold nanoparticles with 16-mercapto hexadecanoic acid

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 000881-000885

  Ihara, Manabu ^a   Ikenouchi, Shun ^a   Taniguchi, Katsuhiko ^a   Tanaka, Yuki ^a   Hasegawa, Takeshi ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; AG NANOPARTICLE; AU NANOPARTICLE; BLACK DYE; CARBON CHAINS; COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS; EVANESCENT WAVE; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HEXADECANOIC ACID; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; NANO-POROUS FILMS; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; PHOTOABSORPTION SPECTRA; PHOTOABSORPTIONS; PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOELECTRODE; PLASMON EFFECTS; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS; TIO;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PALMITIC ACID; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RADIATION; SATURATED FATTY ACIDS; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84861090692     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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