Organic bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices with surfactant-free Au nanoparticles embedded in the active layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Spyropoulos, George D ^a,b   Stylianakis, Minas M ^a,b   Stratakis, Emmanuel ^b,c   Kymakis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AU NANOPARTICLE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; COMBINATORIAL STUDIES; EFFICIENCY GAIN; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXCITON GENERATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SCATTERING EFFECTS; SURFACTANT-FREE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GOLD;

EID: 84861803214     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4720510     Document Type: Article

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