Plasmonic nanocrystal solar cells utilizing strongly confined radiation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12549-12559

  Kholmicheva, Natalia ^a   Moroz, Pavel ^a   Rijal, Upendra ^a,c   Bastola, Ebin ^a,b   Uprety, Prakash ^a,b   Liyanage, Geethika ^a,b   Razgoniaev, Anton ^a   Ostrowski, Alexis D ^a   Zamkov, Mikhail ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal quantum dots; inorganic matrix; lead sulfide; near field; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; ENERGY GAP; ENERGY TRANSFER; FIELD EMISSION; GOLD; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALS; NARROW BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLS; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; CHARGE CARRIER GENERATION; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; INORGANIC MATRICES; LEAD SULFIDE; NEAR FIELDS; PBS SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84919709911     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505375n     Document Type: Article

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