Surface-passivated plasmonic nano-pyramids for bulk heterojunction solar cell photocurrent enhancement | Zendy

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Surface-passivated plasmonic nano-pyramids for bulk heterojunction solar cell photocurrent enhancement

Author(s) -

Alec Kirkeminde,

Markus Retsch,

Qian Wang,

Guowei Xu,

Rongqing Hui,

Judy Wu,

Shenqiang Ren

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

nanoscale

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.038

H-Index - 224

eISSN - 2040-3372

pISSN - 2040-3364

DOI - 10.1039/c2nr30735a

Subject(s) - photocurrent , materials science , plasmon , optoelectronics , heterojunction , nano , solar cell , plasmonic solar cell , energy conversion efficiency , nanotechnology , band gap , hybrid solar cell , polymer solar cell , composite material

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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