Design of photonic metamaterial multi-junction solar cells using rigorous coupled wave analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7772, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lansey, Eli ^a   Crouse, David T ^b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity mode; Coupled wave analysis; Light harvesting; Metamaterial; Multijunction solar cell; Optoelectronic devices

Indexed keywords

1D GRATING; CAVITY MODE; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; COUPLED-WAVE ANALYSIS; LIGHT HARVESTING; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE LAYER; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WHITE LIGHT;

DESIGN; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; ENERGY CONVERSION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PHOTONICS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 77957850805     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.861283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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