Optical absorption enhancement in disordered vertical silicon nanowire arrays for photovoltaic applications

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 3378-3380

  Bao, Hua ^a   Ruan, Xiulin ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL SCATTERING; ORDERED NANOWIRE ARRAYS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; RANDOM POSITION; RANDOM STRUCTURES; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOWIRES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 78549293610     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.003378     Document Type: Article

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