Diode-coupled Ag nanoantennas for nanorectenna energy conversion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8096, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Osgood III, Richard ^a   Giardini, Stephen ^a   Carlson, Joel ^a   Fernandes, Gustavo E ^b   Kim, Jin Ho ^b   Xu, Jimmy ^b   Chin, Matthew ^c   Nichols, Barbara ^c   Dubey, Madan ^c   Parilla, Philip ^d   Berry, Joseph ^d   Ginley, David ^d   Periasamy, Prakash ^e   Guthrey, Harvey ^e   O'Hayre, Ryan ^e   Buchwald, Walter ^f  

^a DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^f SOLID STATE SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy power conversion; Metal insulator metal diode; Nanoantennas; Nanodiodes; Nanoparticles; NIR visible spectrum; Optical properties; Plasmonic resonances; Quantum efficiency; Rectification; Tunneling diodes

Indexed keywords

ENERGY/POWER CONVERSION; METAL INSULATOR METALS; NANOANTENNAS; NANODIODES; NIR/VISIBLE SPECTRUM; PLASMONIC; RECTIFICATION; TUNNELING DIODES;

ANTENNAS; DIODES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ENERGY CONVERSION; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; MIM DEVICES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NIOBIUM OXIDE; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; TUNNEL DIODES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 80054075381     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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