Efficiency enhancements in Ag nanoparticles-SiO2-TiO2sandwiched structure via plasmonic effect-enhanced light capturing

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Xu, Jinxia ^a,c   Xiao, Xiangheng ^a   Stepanov, Andrey L ^b   Ren, Fen ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Cai, Guangxu ^a   Zhang, Shaofeng ^a   Dai, Zhigao ^a   Mei, Fei ^c   Jiang, Changzhong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZAVOISKY PHYSICAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ag nanoparticles; Ion implantation; Photocatalysis; Plasmonic effect

Indexed keywords

ION IMPLANTATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; SILICA; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SIO2 NANOPARTICLES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; AG NANOPARTICLE; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; NANOSTRUCTURAL COMPOSITES; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PLASMONIC EFFECTS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SYNTHESIZED STRUCTURES;

SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84875187990     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-73     Document Type: Article

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