Near-unity broadband absorption designs for semiconducting nanowire arrays via localized radial mode excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2014, Pages

  Fountaine, Katherine T ^a,b   Kendall, Christian G ^b   Atwater, Harry A ^b,c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; WIRE;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; BROADBAND ABSORPTION; CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; RESONANT ABSORPTION; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SCATTERING PROCESS; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES; UNIFORM NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84899817897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A930     Document Type: Article

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