Thickness dependent enhanced efficiency of polymer solar cells with gold nanorods embedded in the photoactive layer

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-8

  Mahmoud, Alaa Y ^a,b   Zhang, Jianming ^c   Ma, Dongling ^c   Izquierdo, Ricardo ^b   Truong, Vo Van ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Organic solar cell; Plasmonics; Thick thin photoactive film; Toluene based gold nanorods

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; GOLD NANOROD; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOACTIVE FILMS; PLASMONICS;

BLENDING; BUTYRIC ACID; GOLD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANORODS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; TOLUENE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84876893497     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.03.037     Document Type: Article

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