Metallic nanostructures for light trapping in energy-harvesting devices

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Guo, Chuan Fei ^a   Sun, Tianyi ^a   Cao, Feng ^a   Liu, Qian ^b   Ren, Zhifeng ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Conversion efficiency; Light trapping; Photovoltaics; Plasmonics; Solar absorber

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY HARVESTING; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; LIGHT TRAPPING EFFECTS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLASMONICS; SELECTIVE SOLAR ABSORBER; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

EID: 84905720754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2014.42     Document Type: Review

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