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on the photoanodic properties of rose bengal sensitized TiO2 film electrodes prepared by
sol-gel method. Solar Energy Mater. Solar Cells 46, 219 (1997)
41. C. Wen, K. Ishikawa, M. Kishima, K. Yamada, Effects of silver particles on the photovoltaic
properties of dye-sensitized TiO2 thin films. Solar Energy Mater. Solar Cells 61, 339 (2000)
42. P. Wismann, R.E. Hummell (ed.), Handbook of Optical Properties:Optics of small particles, interfaces, and surfaces, vol II. (CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL), (1997). ISBN 13: 9780849324857
43. M.D. Malinsky, K.L. Kelly, G.C. Schatz, R.P. Van Duyne, Nanosphere lithography: effect
of substrate on the localized surface plasmon resonance spectrum of silver nanoparticles. J.
Phys. Chem. B 105, 2343 (2001)
44. W. Hou, P. Pavaskar, Z. Liu, J. Theiss, M. Aykol, S.B. Cronin, Plasmon resonant enhancement
of dye sensitized solar cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 4650 (2011)
45. L.C. Du, A. Furube, K. Yamamoto, K. Hara, R. Katoh, M. Tachiya, Plasmon-induced charge
separation and recombination dynamics in gold-TiO2 nanoparticle systems: dependence on
TiO2 particle size. J. Phys. Chem. C 113, 6454 (2009)
46. P.K. Sudeep, K. Takechi, P.V. Kamat, Harvesting photons in the infrared. Electron injection
from excited tricarbocyanine dye (IR-125) into TiO2 and Ag@TiO2 core-shell nanoparticles.
J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 488 (2007)
47. J.F. Qi, X.N. Dang, P.T. Hammond, A.M. Belcher, Highly efficient plasmon-enhanced dyesensitized solar cells through metal@oxide core-shell nanostructure. ACS Nano 5, 7108
(2011)
48. V. Subramanian, E.E. Wolf, P.V. Kamat, Catalysis with TiO2/gold nanocomposites. Effect of
metal particle size on the fermi level equilibration. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 4943 (2004)
49. B. Ding, B.J. Lee, M.J. Yang, H.S. Jung, J.K. Lee, Surface-plasmon assisted energy conversion
in dye-sensitized solar cells. Adv. Energy Mater. 1, 415 (2011)
50. C. Hagglund, M. Zach, B. Kasemo, Enhanced charge carrier generation in dye sensitized solar
cells by nanoparticle plasmons. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 013113 (2008)
51. I.K. Ding, J. Zhu, W.S. Cai, S.J. Moon, N. Cai, P. Wang, S.M. Zakeeruddin, M. Gratzel,
M.L. Brongersma, Y. Cui, M.D. McGehee, Plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cells. Adv. Energy
Mater. 1, 52 (2011)
52. A. Pors, A.V. Uskov, M. Willatzen, I.E. Protsenko, Control of the input efficiency of photons
into solar cells with plasmonic nanoparticles. Opt. Commun. 284, 2226 (2011)
53. X. Chen, B.H. Jia, J.K. Saha, B.Y. Cai, N. Stokes, Q. Qiao, Y.Q. Wang, Z.R. Shi, M. Gu,
Broadband enhancement in thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells enabled by nucleated
silver nanoparticles. Nano Lett. 12, 2187 (2012)
54. B.T. Draine, P.J. Flatau, Discrete-dipole approximation for scattering calculations. J. Opt.
Soc. Am. A 11, 1491 (1994)
55. P.J. Flatau, B.T. Draine, Fast near field calculations in the discrete dipole approximation for
regular rectilinear grids. Opt. Express 20, 1247 (2012)
56. J. Zhao, A.O. Pinchuk, J.M. Mcmahon, S.Z. Li, L.K. Ausman, A.L. Atkinson, G.C. Schatz,
Methods for describing the electromagnetic properties of silver and gold nanoparticles. Acc.
Chem. Res. 41, 1710 (2008)
57. E. Le, C. Ru, E. Blackie, M. Meyer, P. G. Etchegoin, Surface enhanced Raman scattering
enhancement factors: A comprehensive study. J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 13794 (2007)
58. J.M. McMahon, S. Li, L.K. Ausman, G.C. Schatz, Modeling the effect of small gaps in
surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 116, 1627 (2012)
59. Xu, Y.-l., Electromagnetic scattering by an aggregate of spheres. Appl. Opt. 34, 4573 (1995).
60. N.A. Anderson, T.Q. Lian, Ultrafast electron transfer at the molecule-semiconductor nanoparticle interface. Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 56, 491 (2005)
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Karis, M. Bassler, P. Persson, H. Siegbahn, S. Lunell, N. Martensson, Experimental evidence
for sub-3-fs charge transfer from an aromatic adsorbate to a semiconductor. Nature 418, 620
(2002)