Loss mitigation in plasmonic solar cells: Aluminium nanoparticles for broadband photocurrent enhancements in gaas photodiodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hylton, N P ^a   Li, X F ^b   Giannini, V ^a   Lee, K H ^a   Ekins Daukes, N J ^a   Loo, J ^c   Vercruysse, D ^c   Van Dorpe, P ^c,d   Sodabanlu, H ^e   Sugiyama, M ^e   Maier, S A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 84885341117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02874     Document Type: Article

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