Panchromatic enhancement of light-harvesting efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells using thermally annealed Au@SiO2 triangular nanoprisms

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 14352-14359

  Gangishetty, Mahesh K ^a   Scott, Robert W J ^a   Kelly, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANNEALING; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PLASMONIC EFFECTS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; THERMALLY UNSTABLE; TRIANGULAR NANOPRISMS;

SOLAR CELLS;

GOLD; SILICON DIOXIDE;

CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE;

GOLD; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84913534918     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la503878m     Document Type: Article

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