Edge-gold-coated silver nanoprisms: Enhanced stability and applications in organic photovoltaics and chemical sensing

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 12459-12468

  Shahjamali, Mohammad M ^a   Salvador, Michael ^b   Bosman, Michel ^c   Ginger, David S ^b   Xue, Can ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; GOLD COATINGS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILVER; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION;

CHEMICAL STABILITY;

EID: 84902436623     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp501884s     Document Type: Article

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