Preparation of gold and gold-silver alloy nanoparticles for enhancement of plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cells performance

Solar Energy

Volumn 126, Issue , 2016, Pages 93-104

  Al Azawi, Mohammed A ^a   Bidin, Noriah ^a   Bououdina, M ^b   Mohammad, Sabah M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Localized surface plasmon resonance; Optical properties; Photovoltaic performance

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FILM PREPARATION; GOLD; GOLD ALLOYS; LASER ABLATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SILVER ALLOYS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIN DIOXIDE; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES;

AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; GOLD-SILVER ALLOY NANOPARTICLES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POROUS TITANIUM DIOXIDE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

SILVER;

ALLOY; DYE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILM; FUEL CELL; GOLD; NANOPARTICLE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SILVER;

EID: 84954289837     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2015.12.043     Document Type: Article

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