Overview of optical rectennas for solar energy harvesting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8824, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Zixu ^a   Joshi, Saumil ^a   Pelz, Bradley ^a   Moddel, Garret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Graphene diode; MIM diode; Optical rectenna; Photon assisted tunneling; Quantum rectification; Rectenna; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

DEVICE OPERATIONS; METAL INSULATOR METALS; MIM DIODES; PHOTON-ASSISTED TUNNELING; QUANTUM RECTIFICATION; RC TIME CONSTANTS; RECTENNAS; ULTRATHIN INSULATORS;

DIODES; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAPHENE; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; PHOTONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN; TECHNOLOGY; TRAVELING WAVE ANTENNAS;

MIM DEVICES;

EID: 84886707082     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2024700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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