Optical characteristics of silicon nanowires grown from tin catalyst layers on silicon coated glass

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 20266-20275

  Ball, Jeremy ^a   Centeno, Anthony ^b   Mendis, Budhika G ^c   Reehal, H S ^a   Alford, Neil ^d  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MALAYSIA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GLASS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; TIN; WIRE;

CATALYST LAYERS; COATED GLASS; FDTD (FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN); HIGH DENSITY; LOWER DENSITY; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SI LAYER; SILICON NANOWIRES; SN-CATALYST; SOLAR CELL FABRICATION; TIN CATALYST; TRANSMITTANCE SPECTRA; VISIBLE-WAVELENGTH RANGE; WIRE GROWTH;

SILICON;

GLASS; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON; TIN;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; TIN;

EID: 84865794828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020266     Document Type: Article

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