Improved photovoltaic performance of silicon nanowire/organic hybrid solar cells by incorporating silver nanoparticles

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-6

  Liu, Kong ^a   Qu, Shengchun ^a   Zhang, Xinhui ^a   Tan, Furui ^a   Wang, Zhanguo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

Hybrid solar cell; Silicon nanowire; Silver nanoparticle; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOWIRES; PLASMONS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; LIGHT SCATTERING AND ABSORPTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; REFLECTION SPECTRA; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES (AGNPS); TANDEM STRUCTURE;

SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84875133327     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-88     Document Type: Article

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