Enhancement of optical absorption in thin-film solar cells through the excitation of higher-order nanoparticle plasmon modes

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10195-10205

  Akimov, Yu A ^a   Koh, W S ^a   Ostrikov, K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL FILMS; PLASMONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

HIGHER-ORDER MODES; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; PLASMON ENHANCEMENTS; RECENT RESEARCHES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRAL POSITION; SURFACE PLASMON MODES;

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 66849128262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010195     Document Type: Article

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