Effective light trapping enhancement by plasmonic Ag nanoparticles on silicon pyramid surface

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 104, 2012, Pages A502-A509

  Dai, Han ^a   Li, Meicheng ^a   Li, Yingfeng ^a   Yu, Hang ^a   Bai, Fan ^b   Ren, Xiaofeng ^b  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; REFLECTION;

AG NANOPARTICLE; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MIE THEORY; PLASMONIC; PYRAMID STRUCTURE; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

SILVER;

EID: 84863772341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A502     Document Type: Article

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