Light trapping in ZnO nanowire arrays covered with an absorbing shell for solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2014, Pages

  Michallon, Jérôme ^a,b,c   Bucci, Davide ^a   Morand, Alain ^a   Zanuccoli, Mauro ^d   Consonni, Vincent ^b,c   Kaminski Cachopo, Anne ^a  

^a MINATEC   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES MATÉRIAUX ET DU GÉNIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

ABSORBING SHELLS; ABSORPTION PROPERTY; EXTREMELY THIN ABSORBER SOLAR CELLS; GEOMETRICAL DIMENSIONS; OPTICAL COMPUTATIONS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; ZNO NANOWIRE ARRAYS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84903722367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.0A1174     Document Type: Article

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