High-efficiency, broad-band and wide-angle optical absorption in ultra-thin organic photovoltaic devices

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Wenyan ^a   Hao, Yuying ^a   Cui, Yanxia ^a   Tian, Ximin ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Shi, Fang ^a   Wei, Bin ^b   Huang, Wei ^c  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; CHARGE COLLECTION; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HYBRID POLARIZATION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 84896343571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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