Improved performance of amorphous silicon solar cells via scattering from surface plasmon polaritons in nearby metallic nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Derkacs, D ^a   Lim, S H ^a   Matheu, P ^a   Mar, W ^a,b   Yu, E T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY CONVERSION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 33748268674     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2336629     Document Type: Article

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