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Surface-passivated plasmonic nano-pyramids for bulk heterojunction solar cell photocurrent enhancement
Alec Kirkeminde1, Markus Retsch, Qian Wang
1Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
Nanoscale
|June 15, 2012
Abstract:
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.

