Broadband light absorption with multiple surface plasmon polariton waves excited at the interface of a metallic grating and photonic crystal

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4995-5007

  Hall, Anthony Shoji ^a   Faryad, Muhammad ^b   Barber, Greg D ^a   Liu, Liu ^b   Erten, Sema ^b   Mayer, Theresa S ^b   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b   Mallouk, Thomas E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

broadband light trapping; metal grating; photonic crystal; photovoltaics; surface plasmon polariton wave

Indexed keywords

1-D PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; BROADBAND LIGHT; HOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRICS; METAL GRATING; METALLO-DIELECTRIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; VARYING REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; EXCITED STATES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84879677651     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4003488     Document Type: Article

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