Efficiency enhancement of PbS quantum Dot/ZnO nanowire bulk-heterojunction solar cells by plasmonic silver nanocubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4165-4172

  Kawawaki, Tokuhisa ^a   Wang, Haibin ^b   Kubo, Takaya ^b   Saito, Koichiro ^a   Nakazaki, Jotaro ^b   Segawa, Hiroshi ^b   Tatsuma, Tetsu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction solar cell; colloidal quantum dot; localized surface plasmon resonance; silver nanocube

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOCUBES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84928958284     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00321     Document Type: Article

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