Absorption Enhancement in Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Films with Embedded Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 18635-18640

  Carretero Palacios, S ^a   Calvo, M E ^a   Miguez H ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMONS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; PEROVSKITE FILMS; RANDOM PARTICLES; REALISTIC SYSTEMS; SCATTERING EFFECTS; VOLUME CONCENTRATION;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84939168568     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b06473     Document Type: Article

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