Combined plasmonic and dielectric rear reflectors for enhanced photocurrent in solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Basch, A ^a,b   Beck, F J ^c   Soderstrom T ^d   Varlamov, S ^d   Catchpole, K R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; LIGHT LOSS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LONG WAVELENGTH; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILM; SCATTERED LIGHT; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TITANIA;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; POLYSILICON; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILVER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84863315037     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4729290     Document Type: Article

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