Deterministic quasi-random nanostructures for photon control

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Martins, Emiliano R ^a   Li, Juntao ^b   Liu, Yikun ^b   Depauw, Valérie ^c   Chen, Zhanxu ^b,d   Zhou, Jianying ^b   Krauss, Thomas F ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

^d GUANGDONG POLYTECHNIC NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTAL; NANOFILM; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MODULATION; NANOFABRICATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; REFRACTION INDEX;

EID: 84886645736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3665     Document Type: Article

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