Design of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Efficient Subwavelength Light Trapping in Thin-Film Solar Cells

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 155-161

  Akimov, Yuriy A ^a   Koh, Wee Shing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Light trapping; Metallic nanoparticles; Solar cells; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953027398     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-010-9181-4     Document Type: Article

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