Semiconductor nanowire optical antenna solar absorbers

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 439-445

  Cao, Linyou ^a   Fan, Pengyu ^a   Vasudev, Alok P ^a   White, Justin S ^a   Yu, Zongfu ^b   Cai, Wenshan ^a   Schuller, Jon A ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Optical antennas; Photon management; Semiconductor nanowires; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES;

ABSORPTION; ANTENNAS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC WIRE; ENERGY CONVERSION; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SUN;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

EID: 76749154134     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9036627     Document Type: Article

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