The optical absorption of nanowire arrays

Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-167

  Lagos, N ^a,b   Sigalas, M M ^a   Niarchos, D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Absorption; Disorder; Nanowires; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

DISORDER; FILLING RATIO; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RANDOM LOCATION; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SI NANOWIRE; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 79955476446     PISSN: 15694410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2010.09.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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