Enhanced absorptive characteristics of metal nanoparticle-coated silicon nanowires for solar cell applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 31, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Keya ^a,b   Jee, Sang Won ^a   Guo, Zhongyi ^a,b   Liu, Shutian ^b   Lee, Jung Ho ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS; LIGHT ENHANCEMENT; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; LONG-WAVELENGTH REGIONS; SILICON NANOWIRES; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 80155148454     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000G63     Document Type: Article

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