Broadband light absorption enhancement in thin-film silicon solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2012-2018

  Wang, Wei ^a   Wu, Shaomin ^a   Reinhardt, Kitt ^c   Lu, Yalin ^d   Chen, Shaochen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband absorption enhancement; Nanogratings; Polarization insensitive; Surface plasmon polaritons; Thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND ABSORPTION; NANO-GRATINGS; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLIDS; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77953298175     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl904057p     Document Type: Article

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