The role of Ag nanoparticles in inverted polymer solar cells: Surface plasmon resonance and backscattering centers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Peng ^a   Shen, Liang ^a   Meng, Fanxu ^a   Zhang, Jiaqi ^a   Xie, Wenfa ^a   Yu, Wenjuan ^a   Guo, Wenbin ^a   Jia, Xu ^a   Ruan, Shengping ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING ENHANCEMENT; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; INVERTED POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; MOLYBDENUM TRIOXIDE; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TRANSMITTANCE SPECTRA;

BACKSCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIN DIOXIDE; TIN OXIDES;

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EID: 84875965462     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4798553     Document Type: Article

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