Shape-dependent light harvesting of 3D gold nanocrystals on bulk heterojunction solar cells: Plasmonic or optical scattering effect?

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 7554-7564

  Tseng, Wei Hsuan ^a   Chiu, Chun Ya ^b   Chou, Shang Wei ^a   Chen, Hsieh Chih ^a   Tsai, Meng Lin ^a   Kuo, Ya Ching ^a   Lien, Der Hsien ^a   Tsao, Yu Chi ^b   Huang, Kuo You ^a   Yeh, Chih Ting ^a   He, Jr Hau ^a   Wu, Chih I ^a   Huang, Michael H ^b   Chou, Pi Tai ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOCRYSTALS; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; FAR-FIELD SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NEAR-FIELD COUPLING; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; UV VISIBLE ABSORPTION SPECTRUM;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84927613332     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp512192e     Document Type: Article

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