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Open AccessComparison of Nanohole-Type and Nanopillar-Type Patterned Metallic Electrodes Incorporated in Organic Solar Cells
Both the nanohole- and nanopillar-type patterned metallic electrodes (PMEs) have been introduced in organic solar cells (OSCs) for improving device performances experimentally, but there is few work addressing...
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Beam Collimation Using an Anisotropic Metamaterial Slab Without Any Nanometer-Sized Aperture
Plasmonic beam collimation effect has been thoroughly investigated based on the well-known nanometer-scale bull’s eye structure formed by complex and high-cost fabrication processes. In this work, we report ou...
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Ultra-Thin Organic Solar Cells Incorporating Dielectric-Coated Comb Silver Nanogratings
Although coating engineering on metallic nanostructures has been frequently applied in organic solar cells (OSCs) for improving the device performance by preventing the possible exciton quenching and charge re...
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Fine tuning of terpolymer properties by incorporating electron-accepting difluorobenzene and diketopyrrolopyrrole units
A series of low band gap terpolymers (PBDT–DFBx–DPPy) incorporating various ratios of two acceptor units, difluorobenzene (DFB) and diketopyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole (DPP), were synthesized by Pd-catalyzed Stille polym...
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Absorption Enhancement in Organic Solar Cells with a Built-In Short-Pitch Plasmonic Grating
In this work, a short-pitch plasmonic grating is introduced in a conventional organic solar cell, aiming for improving light absorption. It is found that by utilizing a metallic grating with period of 20 nm, w...
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Band offsets of \(\mathrm{Er}_{2}\mathrm{O}_{3}\) films grown on Ge substrates by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
The band alignments of high-k Er2O3 films grown on Ge substrates by molecular beam epitaxy are determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The valence-band and the conduction-band offsets of Er2O3 to Ge are f...
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Optical Curtain Effect: Extraordinary Optical Transmission Enhanced by Antireflection
In this paper, we employ an antireflective coating which comprises inverted π-shaped metallic grooves to manipulate the behaviour of a transverse-magnetic (TM)-polarised plane wave transmitted through a period...
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Plasmon-Assisted Optical Curtains
We predict an optical curtain effect, i.e., formation of a spatially invariant light field as light emerges from a set of periodic metallic nano-objects. The underlying physical mechanism of generation of this...
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Preparation, Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of Liposomes Containing Brucea javanica Oil
Brucea javanica oil-loaded liposomes (BJOL) were prepared through thin film hydration method and characterized by transmission electron microscope, dynamic light scattering, and differential scan...