Metal Nanogrid for Broadband Multiresonant Light-Harvesting in Ultrathin GaAs Layers

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 878-884

  Massiot, Inès ^a   Vandamme, Nicolas ^a   Bardou, Nathalie ^a   Dupuis, Christophe ^a   Lemaître, Aristide ^a   Guillemoles, Jean François ^b   Collin, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b 6 quai Watier   (France)

Author keywords

broadband absorption; plasmonics; solar cell; super absorbers; ultrathin

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SOLAR CELLS;

BROADBAND ABSORPTION; GAAS SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; PLASMONICS; SUBWAVELENGTH PERIOD; SUPER ABSORBERS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRIDS; ULTRA-THIN;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

EID: 84923930769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500168b     Document Type: Article

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