On the plasmonic photovoltaic

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 6066-6073

  Mubeen, Syed ^a,b   Lee, Joun ^a   Lee, Woo Ram ^a   Singh, Nirala ^b   Stucky, Galen D ^a   Moskovits, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

gold nanorods; photovoltaics; Schottky barrier; surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GOLD; HOT ELECTRONS; NANORODS; PHOTONS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

GOLD NANOROD; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SCHOTTKY BARRIERS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TIO;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84903446091     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501379r     Document Type: Article

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