Wide-angle and polarization-insensitive perfect absorber for organic photovoltaic layers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1266-1269

  Liu, Kai ^a   Hu, Haifeng ^a   Song, Haomin ^a   Zeng, Xie ^a   Ji, Dengxin ^a   Jiang, Suhua ^b   Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

absorption enhancement; critical coupling; P3HT:PC60 BM; Perfect absorber

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; CRITICAL COUPLING; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; P3HT:PC60 BM; PERFECT ABSORBER; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE;

OPTICS; PHOTONICS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84879894795     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2264047     Document Type: Article

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