Plasmonic solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21793-21800

  Catchpole, K R ^a,b   Polman, A ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

BASIC MECHANISM; CELL CONFIGURATIONS; FUTURE PROSPECTS; LOCALIZED PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMONIC SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 58149107547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021793     Document Type: Article

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