Incident angle dependence of absorption enhancement in plasmonic solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 104, 2011, Pages A763-A771

  Yang, Meng ^a   Fu, Zhengping ^a   Lin, Feng ^a   Zhu, Xing ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SILVER;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ANGULAR RANGE; FABRY-PEROT; INCIDENT ANGLES; INCIDENT LIGHT; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; PLASMONIC; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRAL SHIFT; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION;

EID: 79959914725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00A763     Document Type: Article

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