Prominent Efficiency Enhancement in Perovskite Solar Cells Employing Silica-Coated Gold Nanorods

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 6996-7004

  Wu, Runsheng ^a,c   Yang, Bingchu ^a   Zhang, Chujun ^a   Huang, Yulan ^a   Cui, Yanxia ^b   Liu, Peng ^a   Zhou, Conghua ^a   Hao, Yuying ^b   Gao, Yongli ^a,d   Yang, Junliang ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c XinYu University   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; EFFICIENCY; GOLD COATINGS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANORODS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; PLASMONS; SILICA; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

DEVICE PARAMETERS; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; LOW TEMPERATURE SOLUTIONS; METAL NANORODS; SILICA-COATED GOLD NANORODS;

GOLD;

EID: 84964411694     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00309     Document Type: Article

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