Ag nanoparticle-blended plasmonic organic solar cells : performance enhancement or detraction?

• Main Authors: Wu, Bo, Mathews, Nripan, Sum, Tze Chien
• Other Authors: Freundlich, Alexandre
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103898; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20063
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The blending of metallic nanoparticles into the active layer of organic solar cells in a bid to enhance their light absorption and device performance has led to controversial reports of both efficiency enhancement and degradation. Herein, through comprehensive transient absorption spectroscopy, we p...