Effective medium analysis of thermally evaporated Ag nanoparticle films for plasmonic enhancement in organic solar cell

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 294-304

  Haidari, Gholamhosain ^a   Hajimahmoodzadeh, Morteza ^a   Fallah, Hamid Reza ^a   Varnamkhasti, Mohsen Ghasemi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bergman effective medium; FDTD simulation; Organic solar cell; Plasmonic; Silver nanoparticles; Thermal evaporation

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METALLIC FILMS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS; THERMAL EVAPORATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM; FDTD SIMULATIONS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PLASMONIC; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

SILVER;

EID: 84930678587     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: 10963677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2015.04.041     Document Type: Article

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