Plasmonic silver nanoparticles for improved organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-174

  Kalfagiannis, N ^a   Karagiannidis, P G ^a   Pitsalidis, C ^a   Panagiotopoulos, N T ^b   Gravalidis, C ^a   Kassavetis, S ^a   Patsalas, P ^b   Logothetidis, S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Plasmonic solar cells; Scattering; Silver nanoparticles; Spectroscopic ellipsometry; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; DEVICE STRUCTURES; DIRECT CONTACT; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ENHANCED SCATTERING; ITO FILMS; J-V CHARACTERISTICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC LAYERS; PLASMONIC; SERIES AND SHUNT RESISTANCES; SERIES RESISTANCE VALUES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TRANSPARENT ANODES;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SCATTERING; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SILVER;

EID: 84861950562     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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