A comprehensive study for the plasmonic thin-film solar cell with periodic structure

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5993-6007

  Sha, Wei E I ^a   Choy, Wallace ^a   Chew, Weng Cho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; METAL RECOVERY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PLASMONS; STRIP METAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THIN FILM DEVICES;

ABSORBED POWER; ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION; ABSORPTION PEAKS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORIES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN METHOD; FLOQUET MODES; INHOMOGENEOUS WAVES; METAL STRIPS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMIZED DESIGNS; PARAMETER-EXTRACTION METHOD; SOLAR CELL DESIGN; STRIP STRUCTURE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

SOLAR CELLS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77949651857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005993     Document Type: Article

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