Enhanced efficiency of organic and perovskite photovoltaics from shape-dependent broadband plasmonic effects of silver nanoplates

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 140, Issue , 2015, Pages 224-231

  Hsu, Hsiang Lin ^a   Juang, Tzong Yuan ^b   Chen, Chih Ping ^c   Hsieh, Cheng Ming ^c   Yang, Chun Chen ^c   Huang, Cheng Liang ^b   Jeng, Ru Jong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MING CHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Organic photovoltaic; Perovskite; Plasmonic; Solar Cell

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; EFFICIENCY; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLASMONIC; POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT DENSITIES; WET CHEMICAL PROCESS;

SILVER;

EID: 84929086820     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.04.021     Document Type: Article

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