Surface-passivated plasmonic nano-pyramids for bulk heterojunction solar cell photocurrent enhancement
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2012Author
Kirkeminde, Alec
Retsch, Markus
Wang, Qian
Xu, Guowei
Hui, Rongqing
Wu, Judy Z.
Ren, Shenqiang
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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We report that self-assembled gold (Au) nanopyramid arrays can greatly enhance the photocurrent of narrow bandgap organic solar cells using their plasmonic near-field effect. The plasmonic enhanced power conversion efficiency exhibited up to 200% increase under the AM 1.5 solar illumination.
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This is the published version. ©Copyright 2012 Royal Society of Chemistry
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Kirkeminde, Alec, Markus Retsch, Qian Wang, Guowei Xu, Rongqing Hui, Judy Wu, and Shenqiang Ren. "Surface-passivated Plasmonic Nano-pyramids for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell Photocurrent Enhancement." Nanoscale 4.15 (2012): 4421. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2NR30735A
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