A plasmonically enhanced polymer solar cell with gold–silica core–shell nanorods

• Main Authors: Heeger, Alan J., Xu, Xiaoyan, Kyaw, Aung Ko Ko, Peng, Bo, Zhao, Dewei, Wong, Terence Kin Shun, Xiong, Qihua, Sun, Xiaowei
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Polymer solar cells; Au nanorods; Metallic nanoparticles; Plasmonic effects
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106930; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17523
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report the use of chemically synthesized gold (Au)–silica core–shell nanorods with the length of 92.5 ± 8.0 nm and diameter of 34.3 ± 4.0 nm for the efficiency enhancement of bulk heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cells. Silica coated Au nanorods were randomly blended into the BHJ layers of thes...