Generalized matrix method for calculation of internal light energy flux in mixed coherent and incoherent multilayers

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 7532-7539

  Centurioni, Emanuele ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

COMPUTATION TIME; LIGHT ENERGY FLUXES; LIGHT INTENSITY; POYNTING VECTORS;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 30844447699     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007532     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. C. C. Katsidis and D. I. Siapkas, "General transfer-matrix method for optical multilayer systems with coherent, partially coherent, and incoherent interference," Appl. Opt. 41, 3978-3987 (2002).
2. J. S. C. Prentice, "Optical generation rate of electron-hole pairs in multilayer thin-film photovoltaic cells," J. Phys. D 32, 2146-2150 (1999).
3. K. Ohta and H. Ishida, "Matrix formalism for calculation of the light beam intensity in stratified multilayered films, and its use in the analysis of emission spectra," Appl. Opt. 29, 2466-2473 (1990).
4. R. M. Azzam and N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and Polarized Light (North-Holland, 1977), pp. 332-340.
5. J. S. C. Prentice, "Coherent, partially coherent and incoherent light absorption in thin-film multilayer structures," J. Phys. D 33, 3139-3145 (2000).
6. K. Ohta and H. Ishida, "Matrix formalism for calculation of electric field intensity of light in stratified multilayered films," Appl. Opt. 29, 1952-1959 (1990).
7. L. A. A. Pettersson, L. S. Roman, and O. Inganas, "Modeling photocurrent action spectra of photovoltaic devices based on organic thin films," J. Appl. Phys. 86, 487-496 (1999).
8. H. Hoppe, N. Arnold, N. S. Sariciftci, and D. Meissner, "Modeling the optical absorption within conjugated polymer/fullerene-based bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells," Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 80, 105-113 (2003).
9. J. A. Stratton, Electromagnetic Theory (McGraw-Hill, 1941), Chap. 12.
10. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics (Pergamon, 1970), pp. 33.
11. E. D. Palik, Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids (Academic, 1991), Vol. II, pp. 38-41.
12. E. Centurioni, "A GPL optical simulation program for mixed coherent/incoherent multilayer systems," available at www.bo.imm.cnr.it/ ~centurio/optical.html.