Surface-plasmon enhanced absorption in organic solar cells by employing a periodically corrugated metallic electrode

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Jin, Yu ^a   Feng, Jing ^a   Zhang, Xu Lin ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Bi, Yan Gang ^a   Chen, Qi Dai ^a   Wang, Hai Yu ^a   Sun, Hong Bo ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; INTRINSIC ABSORPTIONS; METAL/ORGANIC INTERFACES; METALLIC ELECTRODES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PLANAR DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE-PLASMON; SURFACE-PLASMON POLARITON;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PLASMONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84867794038     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4761947     Document Type: Article

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