Engineering light absorption in single-nanowire solar cells with metal nanoparticles

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Colombo, Carlo ^a   Krogstrup, Peter ^b   Nygard, Jesper ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^c   Morral, Anna Fontcuberta I ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULL-FIELD; LEAKY MODES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; PHOTOCURRENT MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMONS;

LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOWIRES;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84855381347     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/12/123026     Document Type: Article

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