Synthesis of Au-SiO2 asymmetric clusters and their application in ZnO nanosheet-based dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5601-5608

  Li, Hui ^a   Yuan, Kaidi ^b   Zhang, Yu ^a   Wang, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National Center of Supervision and Inspection on Solar Photovoltaic Products Quality Innovation and Creation Science Park   (China)

Author keywords

Au SiO2 asymmetric clusters; dye sensitized solar cells; surface plasmon; ZnO nanosheets

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC CLUSTERS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; OPTICAL EXTINCTION; PLASMONIC EFFECTS; SURFACE PLASMONS; ZNO NANOSHEETS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; GOLD; LIGHT EXTINCTION; NANOSHEETS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLASMONS; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84879508927     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am400914g     Document Type: Article

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