Broadband absorption enhancement achieved by optical layer mediated plasmonic solar cell

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26536-26550

  Ren, Wenzhen ^a   Zhang, Guanghui ^a   Wu, Yukun ^a   Ding, Huaiyi ^a   Shen, Qinghe ^a   Zhang, Kun ^a   Li, Junwen ^a   Pan, Nan ^a   Wang, Xiaoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FORWARD SCATTERING; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND ABSORPTION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN CALCULATIONS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; PLASMONIC SOLAR CELLS; SPECTRAL PERFORMANCE; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

SOLAR CELLS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84555190881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026536     Document Type: Article

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