Cooperative electromagnetic interactions between nanoparticles for solar energy harvesting

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2014, Pages

  Langlais, Mathieu ^a,b   Hugonin, Jean Paul ^b   Besbes, Mondher ^b   Ben Abdallah, Philippe ^b  

^a TOTAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR ENERGY;

BROADBAND ABSORBERS; DIPOLAR APPROXIMATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; HIGHER-ORDER; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; VISIBLE RANGE;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

EID: 84899888875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A577     Document Type: Article

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