Enhancement of electromagnetic field intensity by metallic photonic crystal for efficient upconversion

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2938-2942

  Paudel, Hari P ^a   Bayat, Khadijeh ^a   Baroughi, Mahdi Farrokh ^a   May, Stanley ^b   Galipeau, David W ^a  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

^b W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D ARRAYS; 3D FDTD; FIELD INTENSITY; MAXIMUM FIELD INTENSITY; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; METALLIC NANOPILLARS; METALLIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; NANOPILLARS; NEAR-FIELD INTENSITY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RARE EARTH DOPED; TRIANGULAR LATTICE; UP-CONVERSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ERBIUM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; YTTERBIUM;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 78650143730     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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