Dielectric nanostructures for broadband light trapping in organic solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19015-19026

  Raman, Aaswath ^a   Yu, Zongfu ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION RESONANCES; ACTIVE LAYER; BROADBAND LIGHT; CARRIER EXTRACTION; CELL ARCHITECTURES; GRATING STRUCTURES; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MULTI-LEVEL; NANO-STRUCTURING; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; TOP SURFACE;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

NANOMATERIAL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 80053279160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019015     Document Type: Article

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