Metal cluster enhanced organic solar cells

By M. Westphalen, U. Kreibig, J. Rostalski, H. Lüth, D. Meissner. 2000

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Plasmon-enhanced optical absorption and photocurrent in organic bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices using self-assembled layer of silver nanoparticles (2010, methodology): “The application of plasmonic materials to various PV devices has been widely utilized for improving the PV device performance [16–28].”
Improving light absorption in organic solar cells by plasmonic contribution (2009, background): “[10] on components such as ITO/Ag clusters/ZnPc/Ag in which the exciton rate was increased resulting in a photocurrent multiplied by a factor of two.”
Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices. (2010, background): “Dye-sensitized solar cells can also be enhanced by embedding small metal nanoparticles, as reported elsewher”
Surface plasmon subwavelength optics (2003, methodology): “The inverse process, that of using SPs to enhance the absorption of light, for example, in solar cell”
Plasmonics for photovoltaic applications (2010, background): “However surface plasmon excitation followed by direct injection of electrons has been attributed to the increase in photocurrent at the interface of an ITO and ZnPc Schottky junction using silver metal clusters [27].”