A generalized "cut and projection" algorithm for the generation of quasiperiodic plasmonic concentrators for high efficiency ultra-thin film photovoltaics

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2757-2776

  Flanigan, Patrick W ^a   Ostfeld, Aminy E ^a   Serrino, Natalie G ^a   Ye, Zhen ^a   Pacifici, Domenico ^a,b,c  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Biomedical Engineering Brown University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROCOMPUTERS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ACTIVE LAYER; BROADBAND LIGHT; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DE BRUIJN; DIELECTRIC/METAL INTERFACE; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; HIGH SPATIAL DENSITY; HIGH-ORDER; HYBRID DEVICES; INCIDENT LIGHT; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LOCAL FIELDS; NANOHOLES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLASMONIC CONCENTRATORS; POINT-LIKE SCATTERING; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; QUASI-PERIODIC; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES; ULTRATHIN LAYERS;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84874084927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002757     Document Type: Article

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