Research Highlights on Organic Photovoltaics and Plasmonics

Abstract

Incorporation of plasmonic nanostructures for light trapping is an attractive solution to enhance the optical absorption of the active light-harvesting layer(s) in thin-film photovoltaic cells. The latest research highlights on plasmonic-enhanced organic photovoltaics (OPVs), including metallic nanoparticles and periodic nanopatterned structures, are presented in this paper.

Keywords

• Organic photovoltaics
• plasmonics
• nanophotonics