Design of wide-angle selective absorbers/emitters with dielectric filled metallic photonic crystals for energy applications

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chou, Jeffrey B ^a   Yeng, Yi Xiang ^b   Lenert, Andrej ^a   Rinnerbauer, Veronika ^b   Celanovic, Ivan ^b   Soljačić, Marin ^b   Wang, Evelyn N ^a   Kim, Sang Gook ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC FILLED CAVITY; EFFICIENCY COMPARISONS; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; METALLIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SELECTIVE ABSORPTION; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS;

DESIGN;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84892649852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A144     Document Type: Article

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