Metal-core/semiconductor-shell nanocones for broadband solar absorption enhancement

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1093-1098

  Zhou, Lin ^a,b   Yu, Xiaoqiang ^c   Zhu, Jia ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING XIAOZHUANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

broadband absorption; core shell; nanocone; plasmonic; Si; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894121927     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl500008y     Document Type: Article

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