Light trapping in photonic crystals

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2725-2738

  Wang, Ken Xingze ^a,b   Yu, Zongfu ^b,c   Liu, Victor ^b,d   Raman, Aaswath ^b   Cui, Yi ^b,e   Fan, Shanhui ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; EXTERNAL RADIATION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MATERIAL ABSORPTION; PHOTONIC DENSITY OF STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84904545791     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ee00839a     Document Type: Article

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