Plasmon enhanced resonant defect absorption in thin a-Si:H n-i-p devices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  Lukermann F ^a   Heinzmann, U ^a   Stiebig, H ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Malibu GmbH Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; DEFECT LOCATION; DEFECT STATE; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); INTRINSIC LAYER; PHOTON ENERGY; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SILICON NETWORKS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TRANSITION RATES;

DEFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON;

SILVER;

EID: 84863319490     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4730432     Document Type: Article

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