Power conversion efficiency enhancement of organic solar cells by addition of gold nanostars, nanorods, and nanospheres

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1720-1727

  Kozanoglu, Duygu ^a   Apaydin, Dogukan Hazar ^a   Cirpan, Ali ^a   Esenturk, Emren Nalbant ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Gold nanoparticle; Nanostars; Organic solar cell; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MORPHOLOGY; NANORODS; NANOSPHERES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); NANOSTARS; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE):POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REFERENCE DEVICES; SCATTERING PROPERTY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84877257610     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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