Fundamental limit of light trapping in grating structures

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Yu, Zongfu ^a   Raman, Aaswath ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1D GRATING; 2D GRATING; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ANGULAR DEPENDENCIES; BULK-LIMIT; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; GRATING PROFILE; GRATING STRUCTURES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

EID: 77957005091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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