Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Plasmonic solar cells: from rational design to mechanism overview

YH Jang, YJ Jang, S Kim, LN Quan, K Chung… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic effects have been proposed as a solution to overcome the limited light absorption
in thin-film photovoltaic devices, and various types of plasmonic solar cells have been …

Efficiency enhancement of organic solar cells by using shape‐dependent broadband plasmonic absorption in metallic nanoparticles

X Li, WCH Choy, H Lu, WEI Sha… - Advanced Functional …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
It is been widely reported that plasmonic effects in metallic nanomaterials can enhance light
trap** in organix solar cells (OSCs). However, typical nanoparticles (NP) of high quality …

Polymer solar cells: P3HT: PCBM and beyond

PR Berger, M Kim - Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
For the last two decades, polymer solar cells (PSCs) have been a cynosure of the
photovoltaic community, as evidenced by the growing number of patent applications and …

Plasmonic forward scattering effect in organic solar cells: a powerful optical engineering method

SW Baek, J Noh, CH Lee, BS Kim, MK Seo, JY Lee - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
In this report, plasmonic effects in organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) are systematically
analyzed using size-controlled silver nanoparticles (AgNPs, diameter: 10~ 100 nm), which …