High performance organic photovoltaics with plasmonic-coupled metal nanoparticle clusters

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10305-10312

  Park, Hyung Il ^a,b   Lee, Seunghoon ^a,b   Lee, Ju Min ^a,b   Nam, Soo Ah ^a,b   Jeon, Taewoo ^a,b   Han, Sang Woo ^a,b   Kim, Sang Ouk ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cluster; electric field distribution; exciton dissociation; organic photovoltaics; plasmon

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EXCITONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS;

CLUSTER; CONTROLLED MORPHOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; ORGANIC ACTIVE LAYERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84908439333     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503508p     Document Type: Article

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