Research highlights on organic photovoltaics and plasmonics

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 620-624

  Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a   Bartoli, Filbert J ^b   Kafafi, Zakya H ^c,d  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

nanophotonics; Organic photovoltaics; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; LIGHT-HARVESTING LAYERS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS;

NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84867381765     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2188886     Document Type: Article

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