Effects of silver nanoparticles towards the efficiency of organic solar cells

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-68

  Hamdan, K S ^a   Abdullah, S M ^a   Sulaiman, K ^a   Zakaria, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; NANOPARTICLES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; J-V CHARACTERISTICS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SILVER NANOPARTICLES; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

SILVER;

EID: 84897911964     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-013-8004-9     Document Type: Article

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