Plasmonic effects of Au/Ag bimetallic multispiked nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 15472-15479

  Sharma, Manisha ^a   Pudasaini, Pushpa Raj ^a   Ruiz Zepeda, Francisco ^a   Vinogradova, Ekaterina ^a   Ayon, Arturo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

heterojunction; light trapping; nanoparticles; plasmonics; solar cell; ultrathin

Indexed keywords

CHELATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIN FILMS;

BIMETALLIC NANOSTRUCTURES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MULTISPIKED NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; ULTRA-THIN;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84907830951     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5040939     Document Type: Article

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