Effect of shell thickness on small-molecule solar cells enhanced by dual plasmonic gold-silica nanorods

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Xiaoyan ^a   Du, Qingguo ^b   Peng, Bo ^c   Xiong, Qihua ^c   Hong, Lei ^a   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^a   Wong, Terence K S ^a   Ko Kyaw, Aung Ko ^d   Sun, Xiao Wei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHELL THICKNESS; SMALL MOLECULES;

EID: 84907495543     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4896516     Document Type: Article

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