Mimicking moth's eyes for photovoltaic applications with tapered GaP nanorods

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7772, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Diedenhofen, Silke L ^a   Algra, Rienk E ^a   Bakker, Erik P A M ^a   Rivas, Jaime Gómez ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antireflection surfaces; Nanowires and nanorods; Photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION LAYERS; ANTIREFLECTION SURFACES; FILLING FRACTIONS; GRADED INDEX; GRADED REFRACTIVE INDICES; LAYERED MEDIA; LIGHT COUPLING EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ENERGY CONVERSION; GALLIUM ALLOYS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; NANORODS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

EID: 77957842928     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.862518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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