Light trapping and absorption optimization in certain thin-film photonic crystal architectures

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Chutinan, Alongkarn ^a   John, Sajeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; HARVESTING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POWDERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTION; RESONANCE; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; THICK FILMS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

3D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; AIR INTERFACE; BLOCH MODES; CENTER FREQUENCIES; CUBIC SYMMETRY; DENSITY OF STATES; DWELL TIMES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE FIELD; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; HIGH-QUALITY FACTORS; INCIDENT ANGLES; LIGHT BEAMS; LIGHT HARVESTING; LIGHT IMPINGING; LIGHT TRAPPING; LONG OPTICAL PATH; NUMERICA L RESULTS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONANCES; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PC FILMS; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PC); PLANE OF INCIDENCE; REFRACTION EFFECTS; SLO W MODE; SPECTRAL RANGES; STRUCTURAL DISORDERING; STRUCTURAL QUALITIES; TEMPORAL MODES; TIME SCALING; TRANSVERSE-OPTICAL;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 49749121771     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.023825     Document Type: Article

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