Light trapping in ultrathin silicon photonic crystal superlattices with randomly-textured dielectric incouplers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 30315-30326

  Callahan, Dennis M ^a   Horowitz, Kelsey A W ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SUPERLATTICES;

BROADBAND ABSORPTION; C-SI SOLAR CELL; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DIELECTRIC COATINGS; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; SI SOLAR CELLS; ULTRATHIN SILICON;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84890486446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.030315     Document Type: Article

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