TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wu,Bo
AU  - Mathews,Nripan
AU  - Sum,Tze-Chien
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Plasmonic Organic Solar Cells: Charge Generation and Recombination 
T2  - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,
SN  - 9789811020216
AV  - TJ807-830 
U1  - 621.042 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Springer Singapore, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Renewable energy resources
KW  - Optical materials
KW  - Electronic materials
KW  - Lasers
KW  - Photonics
KW  - Nanotechnology
KW  - Energy systems
KW  - Materials science
KW  - Renewable and Green Energy
KW  - Optical and Electronic Materials
KW  - Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices
KW  - Nanotechnology and Microengineering
KW  - Energy Systems
KW  - Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
N1  - Introduction -- Surface Plasmon Resonance -- Characterization Techniques -- Plasmonic Entities within the Charge Transporting Layer -- Plasmonic Entities within the Active Layer -- Concluding Remarks
N2  - This book explores the incorporation of plasmonic nanostructures into organic solar cells, which offers an attractive light trapping and absorption approach to enhance power conversion efficiencies. The authors review the latest advances in the field and discuss the characterization of these hybrid devices using a combination of optical and electrical probes. Transient optical spectroscopies such as transient absorption and transient photoluminescence spectroscopy offer powerful tools for observing charge carrier dynamics in plasmonic organic solar cells. In conjunction with device electrical characterizations, they provide unambiguous proof of the effect of the plasmonic nanostructures on the solar cells’ performance. However, there have been a number of controversies over the effects of such integration – where both enhanced and decreased performance have been reported. Importantly, the new insights into the photophysics and charge dynamics of plasmonic organic solar cells that these spectroscopy methods yield could be used to resolve these controversies and provide clear guidelines for device design and fabrication
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2021-6
ER  -