Elucidating the localized plasmonic enhancement effects from a single Ag nanowire in organic solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10101-10110

  Liu, Xinfeng ^a   Wu, Bo ^a,b   Zhang, Qing ^a   Yip, Jing Ngei ^a   Yu, Guannan ^a   Xiong, Qihua ^a,c   Mathews, Nripan ^b,d   Sum, Tze Chien ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

organic solar cells; performance improvement; plasmonic; silver nanowire; single nanostructure; spatially resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SILVER; SILVER METALLOGRAPHY; SILVER NANOWIRES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SPATIALLY RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908398107     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505020e     Document Type: Article

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