Broadband antireflection and light-trapping enhancement of plasmonic solar cells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 19, 2013, Pages

  Fan, Ren Hao ^a   Zhu, Li Hao ^a   Peng, Ru Wen ^a   Huang, Xian Rong ^b   Qi, Dong Xiang ^a   Ren, Xiao Ping ^a   Hu, Qing ^a   Wang, Mu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84878619911     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.195444     Document Type: Article

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