Broadband Coherent Absorption in Chirped-Planar-Dielectric Cavities for 2D-Material-Based Photovoltaics and Photodetectors

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 768-774

  Zheng, Jiabao ^a,c   Barton, Robert A ^b   Englund, Dirk ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

absorption enhancement; chirped distributed Bragg reflector; graphene; optimization; transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

BRAGG REFLECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GRAPHENE; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; REFLECTION; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; TRANSITION METALS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; CAVITY ENHANCEMENT; DIELECTRIC CAVITIES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT ANGLES; LAYERED DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; MATERIAL-BASED; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84926171816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500107b     Document Type: Article

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