Light trapping and near-unity solar absorption in a three-dimensional photonic-crystal

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 4200-4203

  Kuang, Ping ^a   Deinega, Alexei ^b   Hsieh, Mei Li ^c   John, Sajeev ^b   Lin, Shawn Yu ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR ACCEPTANCE; LAMBERTIAN; LIGHT-BENDING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; PATH LENGTH; SOLAR ABSORPTION; ULTRA-WIDE;

REFRACTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84885996315     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.004200     Document Type: Article

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