Optimizing plasmonic silicon photovoltaics with ag and au nanoparticle mixtures

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5889-5895

  Wang, Peng Hui ^a   Millard, Morgan ^a   Brolo, Alexandre G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG AND AU NANOPARTICLES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC; SURFACE COVERAGES; WHITE LIGHT POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

GOLD; GOLD ALLOYS; MIXTURES; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SILVER;

EID: 84897849163     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409351v     Document Type: Article

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