How front side plasmonic nanostructures enhance solar cell efficiency

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2628-2631

  Diukman, Iddo ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Nanoparticles; Photovoltaic; Silicon; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING LAYERS; ANTI-REFLECTION; DIELECTRIC ROUGHNESS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; FRONT SURFACES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PATH LENGTH; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SUN SPECTRA; SURFACE PLASMONS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; FORWARD SCATTERING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79959289121     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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