Strong broadband optical absorption in silicon nanowire films

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Tsakalakos, Loucas ^a   Balch, Joleyn ^a   Fronheiser, Jody ^a   Shih, Min Yi ^a   LeBoeuf, Steven F ^a   Pietrzykowski, Mathew ^a   Codella, Peter J ^a   Korevaar, Bas A ^a   Sulima, Oleg ^b   Rand, Jim ^b   Davuluru, Anilkumar ^c   Rapolc, Umakant ^c  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE Energy Solar Technologies   (United States)

^c General Electric Company India   (India)

Author keywords

Absorption; Light trapping; Nanowire; Optical properties; Reflection; Silicon

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOWIRES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PASSIVATION; REFLECTION; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WET ETCHING;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); EQUIVALENT THICKNESS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HYDROGEN PASSIVATION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL ABSORPTION PROPERTIES; PARTIAL REDUCTION; SUBBAND GAP ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 80054929719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2768999     Document Type: Article

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