Enhanced Efficiency in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Shape-Controlled Plasmonic Nanostructures

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 806-811

  Zarick, Holly F ^a   Hurd, Olivia ^a   Webb, Joseph A ^a   Hungerford, Chanse ^a   Erwin, William R ^a   Bardhan, Rizia ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; gold nanoparticles; nanocubes; photovoltaics; plasmon enhanced; plasmon molecule coupling

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT EFFICIENCIES; NANOCUBES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84919921909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500281v     Document Type: Article

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