Light concentration in polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells with plasmonic nanoparticles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8333, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Jinfeng ^a   Zeng, Baoqing ^a   Kim, Richard S ^b   Wu, Zhe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; light concentration; low band gap; nanoparticle; organic solar cell; surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; LIGHT CONCENTRATION; LOW BAND GAP; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; SURFACE PLASMON;

ENERGY GAP; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SILVER;

EID: 84863266416     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.914545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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