Light absorption enhancement in heterostructure organic solar cells through the integration of 1-D plasmonic gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 104, 2012, Pages A476-A488

  Zilio, Pierfrancesco ^a,b,c   Sammito, Davide ^b,c,d   Zacco, Gabriele ^a,b,c   Mazzeo, Marco ^e,f   Gigli, Giuseppe ^e,f   Romanat, Filippo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LaNN Laboratory for Nanofabrication of Nanodevices   (Italy)

^c IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PLASMONS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; FINITE ELEMENTS SIMULATION; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; LAMELLAR GRATINGS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PLASMONIC; WIDE-BAND;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84863733443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A476     Document Type: Article

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