Plasmon-enhanced polymer-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5570-5576

  Sandén, Simon ^a,b   Akitsu, Kenta ^b   Törngren, Björn ^a   Ylinen, Anne ^a   Smått, Jan Henrik ^a   Kubo, Takaya ^b   Matsumura, Mitsunobu ^c   Otani, Naoki ^c   Segawa, Hiroshi ^b   Österbacka, Ronald ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GOLD COMPOUNDS; OXIDE MINERALS; PLASMONS; SILICA; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ENHANCED ABSORPTION; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT EFFICIENCIES; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PHOTO-ANODES; PLASMON DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REFERENCE DEVICES; SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84924593898     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5097458     Document Type: Article

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