Self-Assembled Monolayer of Wavelength-Scale Core-Shell Particles for Low-Loss Plasmonic and Broadband Light Trapping in Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 247-255

  Dabirian, Ali ^a,b   Byranvand, Mahdi Malekshahi ^c   Naqavi, Ali ^b   Kharat, Ali Nemati ^c   Taghavinia, Nima ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cell; light scattering; light trapping; plasmonic; thin film solar cell

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

CORE SHELL PARTICLES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; SCATTERING EFFICIENCY; SCATTERING PARTICLES; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAICS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84954431297     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08560     Document Type: Article

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