Light management with nanostructures for optoelectronic devices

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1479-1495

  Leung, Siu Fung ^a   Zhang, Qianpeng ^a   Xiu, Fei ^b   Yu, Dongliang ^c   Ho, Johnny C ^b   Li, Dongdong ^c   Fan, Zhiyong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXTRACTION; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY; PHOTON EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84898979333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500306f     Document Type: Article

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