Application of plasmonic silver island films in thin-film silicon solar cells

Journal of Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Santbergen, R ^a   Temple, T L ^a   Liang, R ^a   Smets, A H M ^a   Van Swaaij, R A C M M ^a   Zeman, M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

effective medium; plasmonics; solar cells

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONICS; REFLECTION; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM; SCATTERING ELEMENTS; SELF-ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUE; SILVER ISLAND FILMS; STRONG DEPENDENCES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84856291350     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/14/2/024010     Document Type: Article

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