Diffuse scattering from hemispherical nanoparticles at the air-silicon interface

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 41, 2013, Pages

  Centeno, Anthony ^a,c   Ahmed, Badar ^b   Reehal, Haricharan ^b   Xie, Fang ^c  

^a MALAYSIA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SILICON INTERFACE; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN CALCULATIONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PLASMONICS; SCATTERING EFFICIENCY;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 84884607137     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/41/415402     Document Type: Article

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