Broadband absorption enhancement in randomly positioned silicon nanowire arrays for solar cell applications

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1884-1886

  Du, Qing Guo ^a   Kam, Chan Hin ^a   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^a   Yu, Hong Yu ^a   Sun, Xiao Wei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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Indexed keywords

ABSORPTANCE; BROADBAND ABSORPTION; FILLING RATIO; NANOWIRE STRUCTURES; RANDOM STRUCTURES; REGULAR STRUCTURE; RESONANT MODE; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 79956318605     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001884     Document Type: Article

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