Aluminum plasmonic nanoparticles enhanced dye sensitized solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Qi ^a   Liu, Fang ^a   Liu, Yuxiang ^a   Meng, Weisi ^a   Cui, Kaiyu ^a   Feng, Xue ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Huang, Yidong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ALUMINUM; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL STABILITY; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUENCHING PROCESS; IODIDE/TRI-IODIDE;

ALUMINUM; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84896365192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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