Broadband efficiency enhancement in quantum dot solar cells coupled with multispiked plasmonic nanostars

Nano Energy

Volumn 13, Issue , 2015, Pages 827-835

  Wu, Jiang ^a,b   Yu, Peng ^a   Susha, Andrei S ^c   Sablon, Kimberly A ^d   Chen, Haiyuan ^a   Zhou, Zhihua ^a   Li, Handong ^a   Ji, Haining ^a   Niu, Xiaobin ^a   Govorov, Alexander O ^e   Rogach, Andrey L ^c   Wang, Zhiming M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanoparticles; Noble metals; Quantum dots; Solar cells; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; PRECIOUS METALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LONG-WAVELENGTH REGIONS; QUANTUM DOT MATERIALS; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84928980723     PISSN: 22112855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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