Combined three-dimensional electromagnetic and device modeling of surface plasmon-enhanced organic solar cells incorporating low aspect ratio silver nanoprisms

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Jiang, Wenjun ^a,b   Salvador, Michael ^a,c   Dunham, Scott T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; LOW ASPECT RATIO; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PLASMONIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SILVER NANOPRISMS;

ASPECT RATIO; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SILVER;

EID: 84889674513     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4827106     Document Type: Article

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