Influence of gold-silica nanoparticles on the performance of small-molecule bulk heterojunction solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue , 2015, Pages 20-28

  Xu, Xiaoyan ^a   Kyaw, Aung Ko Ko ^b   Peng, Bo ^c   Xiong, Qihua ^c   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^a,c,d   Wang, Ye ^e   Wong, Terence K S ^a   Sun, Xiao Wei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Nanorod; Nanosphere; Plasmonic effect Stability; Small molecule solar cell

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CARRIER TRANSPORT; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; NANORODS; NANOSPHERES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CURRENT DENSITY-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOROD CONCENTRATIONS; PLASMONIC EFFECTS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84925394222     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.03.026     Document Type: Article

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