Infrared optical response of geometric diode rectenna solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2976-2978

  Joshi, Saumil ^a   Zhu, Zixu ^a   Grover, Sachit ^a,b   Moddel, Garret ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ballistic transport; diodes; optical polarization; rectennas; rectifiers; solar energy

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; DC POWER; GEOMETRIC ASYMMETRIES; GRAPHENE DEVICES; HIGH FREQUENCY AC; HIGH FREQUENCY OPERATION; METAL INSULATOR METALS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PLANAR CONFIGURATIONS; RECTENNAS; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAICS;

DIODES; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GRAPHENE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIM DEVICES; SOLAR ENERGY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84869462279     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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