E-beam deposited Ag-nanoparticles plasmonic organic solar cell and its absorption enhancement analysis using FDTD-based cylindrical nano-particle optical model

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 12649-12657

  Kim, Richard S ^a   Zhu, Jinfeng ^b   Park, Jeung Hun ^c   Li, Lu ^c   Yu, Zhibin ^c   Shen, Huajun ^b   Xue, Mei ^b   Wang, Kang L ^b   Park, Gyechoon ^d   Anderson, Timothy J ^e   Pei, Qibing ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Engineering IV   (United States)

^d Mokpo National University   (South Korea)

^e J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

3-DIMENSIONAL; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; BROADBAND ABSORPTION; ELECTRICAL EFFECTS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; OPTICAL MODELS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PEDOT:PSS; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; PLASMONIC; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SHAPE PARAMETERS;

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EID: 84863754637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012649     Document Type: Article

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