Surface plasmonic effects on dye-sensitized solar cells by SiO2-encapsulated Ag nanoparticles

Current Applied Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 397-403

  Hossain, Md Ashraf ^a   Park, Jieun ^a   Yoo, Dayoung ^a   Baek, Youn Kyoung ^b   Kim, Yangdo ^a   Kim, Soo Hyung ^a   Lee, Dongyun ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Material Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ag@SiO2; Core shell structure; Dye sensitized solar cell; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PLASMONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AG NANOPARTICLE; CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; LIGHT COUPLINGS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMONIC EFFECTS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES (AGNPS);

SILVER;

EID: 84954455937     PISSN: 15671739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cap.2016.01.002     Document Type: Article

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