Design of a plasmonic back reflector for silicon nanowire decorated solar cells

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 4245-4247

  Ren, Rui ^a,b   Guo, Yongxin ^b   Zhu, Rihong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION LOSS; BACK REFLECTORS; CRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILMS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NANO-STRUCTURED; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRA; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; PLASMONIC; SI NANOWIRE; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SURFACE DECORATION; ZNO;

NANOWIRES; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

REFLECTION;

EID: 84867471021     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.004245     Document Type: Article

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