Resonant Aluminum Nanodisk Array for Enhanced Tunable Broadband Light Trapping in Ultrathin Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 677-684

  Wu, Bo ^a   Liu, Xinfeng ^a   Oo, Than Zaw ^b   Xing, Guichuan ^a   Mathews, Nripan ^b   Sum, Tze Chien ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Cost effective; Enhancement; Organic photovoltaic device; Plasmonic cavity resonance; Ultrathin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868545466     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9358-0     Document Type: Article

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