Biomimetic broadband antireflection gratings on solar-grade multicrystalline silicon wafers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Phillips, Blayne M ^a   Jiang, Peng ^a   Jiang, Bin ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; BROADBAND ANTIREFLECTION; HEMISPHERICAL REFLECTANCE; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT; MOTHEYE; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON (MC-SI); MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX GRADIENTS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SILICA MICROSPHERES; STRUCTURAL TEMPLATES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; ZERO REFLECTIONS;

BIOMIMETICS; MICROSPHERES; POLYSILICON; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICA;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 81155148769     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3660263     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. A. Luque and S. Hegedus, Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering (Wiley, West Sussex, 2003).
2. J. Poortmans and V. Arkhipov, Thin Film Solar Cells: Fabrication, Characterization and Applications (Wiley, Chichester, 2006).
3. P. Doshi, G. E. Jellison, and A. Rohatgi, Appl. Opt. 36, 7826 (1997). 10.1364/AO.36.007826
4. P. B. Clapham and M. C. Hutley, Nature 244, 281 (1973). 10.1038/244281a0
5. D. G. Stavenga, S. Foletti, G. Palasantzas, and K. Arikawa, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B 273, 661 (2006). 10.1098/rspb.2005.3369
6. U. Schulz, Appl. Opt. 45, 1608 (2006). 10.1364/AO.45.001608
7. S. Chattopadhyay, L. C. Chen, and K. H. Chen, Crit. Rev. Solid State Mater. Sci. 31, 15 (2006). 10.1080/10408430600689299
8. Q. Chen, G. Hubbard, P. A. Shields, C. Liu, D. W. E. Allsopp, W. N. Wang, and S. Abbott, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 263118 (2009). 10.1063/1.3171930
9. D. Lee, M. F. Rubner, and R. E. Cohen, Nano Lett. 6, 2305 (2006). 10.1021/nl061776m
10. Y. Kanamori, K. Hane, H. Sai, and H. Yugami, Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 142 (2001). 10.1063/1.1339845
11. Y. Kanamori, M. Sasaki, and K. Hane, Opt. Lett. 24, 1422 (1999). 10.1364/OL.24.001422
12. Y. F. Huang, S. Chattopadhyay, Y. J. Jen, C. Y. Peng, T. A. Liu, Y. K. Hsu, C. L. Pan, H. C. Lo, C. H. Hsu, Y. H. Chang, C. S. Lee, K. H. Chen, and L. C. Chen, Nat. Nanotechnol. 2, 770 (2007). 10.1038/nnano.2007.389
13. B. G. Prevo, E. W. Hon, and O. D. Velev, J. Mater. Chem. 17, 791 (2007). 10.1039/b612734g
14. J. Zhu, Z. F. Yu, G. F. Burkhard, C. M. Hsu, S. T. Connor, Y. Q. Xu, Q. Wang, M. McGehee, S. H. Fan, and Y. Cui, Nano Lett. 9, 279 (2009). 10.1021/nl802886y
15. C. M. Hsu, S. T. Connor, M. X. Tang, and Y. Cui, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 133109 (2008). 10.1063/1.2988893
16. W. L. Min, B. Jiang, and P. Jiang, Adv. Mater. 20, 3914 (2008). 10.1002/adma.200800791
17. C. H. Sun, P. Jiang, and B. Jiang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 061112 (2008). 10.1063/1.2870080
18. A. Chunder, K. Etcheverry, S. Wadsworth, G. D. Boreman, and L. Zhai, J. Soc. Inf. Disp. 17, 389 (2009). 10.1889/JSID17.4.389
19. W. Kern and E. Tracy, RCA Rev. 41, 133 (1980).
20. G. M. Nogueira, D. Banerjee, R. E. Cohen, and M. F. Rubner, Langmuir 27, 7860 (2011). 10.1021/la200790g
21. W. Stober, A. Fink, and E. Bohn, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 26, 62 (1968). 10.1016/0021-9797(68)90272-5
22. N. D. Denkov, O. D. Velev, P. A. Kralchevsky, I. B. Ivanov, H. Yoshimura, and K. Nagayama, Nature 361, 26 (1993). 10.1038/361026a0
23. M. J. Madou, Fundamentals of Microfabrication: The Science of Miniaturization, 2nd ed. (CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2002).
24. S. H. Zaidi, D. S. Ruby, and J. M. Gee, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 48, 1200 (2001). 10.1109/16.925248
25. M. G. Moharam, D. A. Pommet, E. B. Grann, and T. K. Gaylord, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12, 1077 (1995). 10.1364/JOSAA.12.001077
26. M. A. Green and M. Keevers, Prog. Photovoltaics 3, 189 (1995). 10.1002/pip.v3:3