Enhanced organic solar cell performance: Multiple surface plasmon resonance and incorporation of silver nanodisks into a grating‐structure electrode

Thitirat Putnin; Chutiparn Lertvachirapaiboon; Ryousuke Ishikawa; Kazunari Shinbo; Keizo Kato; Sanong Ekgasit; Kontad Ounnunkad; Akira Baba

doi:10.29026/oea.2019.190010

Opto-Electronic Advances, Volume. 2, Issue 7, 1(2019)

Enhanced organic solar cell performance: Multiple surface plasmon resonance and incorporation of silver nanodisks into a grating‐structure electrode

Thitirat Putnin^1,2, Chutiparn Lertvachirapaiboon¹, Ryousuke Ishikawa¹, Kazunari Shinbo¹, Keizo Kato¹, Sanong Ekgasit³, Kontad Ounnunkad^2、*, and Akira Baba¹

Author Affiliations

¹Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi-2-nocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata 950-2181, Japan

²Department of Chemistry and Center of Excellence for Innovation in Chemistry (PERCH-CIC), Faculty of Science and Center of Excellence in Materials Science and Technology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand

³Sensor Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

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Category: Original Article

Received: Mar. 28, 2019

Accepted: May. 20, 2019

Published Online: Aug. 7, 2019

The Author Email: Kontad Ounnunkad (ababa@eng.niigata-u.ac.jp)

DOI:10.29026/oea.2019.190010

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