Surface plasmon enhancement of optical absorption in thin-film silicon solar cells

Plasmonics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-113

  Akimov, Yu A ^a   Ostrikov, K ^b,c   Li, E P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effective medium; Nanoparticles; Silicon; Solar cells; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649954759     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-009-9080-8     Document Type: Article

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