Journal article
A solid-state plasmonic solar cell via metal nanoparticle self-assembly
P Reineck, GP Lee, D Brick, M Karg, P Mulvaney, U Bach
Advanced Materials | Published : 2012
Abstract
Sustainable plasmonic photocurrents are generated by gold and silver nanoparticles, located at a TiO2/hole conductor interface. The spectral photocurrent response closely follows the surface plasmon absorption bands of the metal particles. A simple nanoparticle self-assembly method for the solar cell fabrication is presented. Three mechanisms for plasmon-induced charge separation are proposed. © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Grants
Awarded by ARC
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the ARC for providing equipment (LE0883019) and fellowship (DP110105312) support. This work was further supported by the Australian Solar Institute, the Victorian State Government (DBI-VSA and DPI-ETIS) and Monash University as well as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization through an OCE Science Leader position. This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, an initiative partly funded by the Commonwealth of Australia and the Victorian Government. The authors would like to thank A. Funston and R. Dunbar for valuable discussions and I. Tegtmeier for Figure 1A. P. Mulvaney and M. Karg thank the ARC for support under grant FL100100117. The authors acknowledge use of facilities within the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy.