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      Plasmon-enhanced charge carrier generation in organic photovoltaic films using silver nanoprisms.

      Nano Letters
      Membranes, Artificial, Metal Nanoparticles, chemistry, Nanotechnology, methods, Particle Size, Polymers, Silver, Spectrophotometry, Surface Properties

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          We use photoinduced absorption spectroscopy to measure long-lived photogenerated charge carriers in optically thin donor/acceptor conjugated polymer blend films near plasmon-resonant silver nanoprisms. We measure up to 3 times more charge generation, as judged by the magnitude of the polaron absorption signal, in 35 nm thin blend films of poly(3-hexylthiophene)/phenyl-C(61)-butyric acid methyl ester on top of films of silver nanoprisms (approximately 40-100 nm edge length). We find that the polaron yields increase linearly with the total sample extinction. These excitation enhancements could in principle be used to increase photocurrents in thin organic solar cells.

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          20235514
          10.1021/nl100615e

          Chemistry
          Membranes, Artificial,Metal Nanoparticles,chemistry,Nanotechnology,methods,Particle Size,Polymers,Silver,Spectrophotometry,Surface Properties

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