Broadband scattering of the solar spectrum by spherical metal nanoparticles

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 600-611

  Temple, Tristan L ^a   Bagnall, Darren M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

light trapping; metal nanoparticles; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PLASMONICS; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPHERES;

SILICON;

EID: 84878197298     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1237     Document Type: Article

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