Understanding the nanophotonic light-trapping structure of diatom frustule for enhanced solar energy conversion: A theoretical and experimental study

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8958, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, Xiangfan ^a   Wang, Chen ^a   Baker, Evan ^a   Wang, Jane ^a   Sun, Cheng ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diatom; FDTD; Light trapping; RCWA; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHYTOPLANKTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; DIATOM; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LIGHT-TRAPPING EFFECTS; RCWA; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

NANOPHOTONICS;

EID: 84901628711     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2038529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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