Unraveling the Janus Role of Mie Resonances and Leaky/Guided Modes in Semiconductor Nanowire Absorption for Enhanced Light Harvesting

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 921-929

  Abujetas, Diego R ^a   Paniagua Domínguez, Ramón ^a   Sánchez Gil, José A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

light harvesting; Mie scattering; photovoltaics; semiconductor nanowire; waveguide modes

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; HARVESTING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; RESONANCE;

LIGHT-HARVESTING; MIE SCATTERING; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84937035256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00112     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Yan, R.; Gargas, D.; Yang, P. Nanowire photonics Nat. Photonics 2009, 3, 569-576
2. Tian, B.; Kempa, T. J.; Lieber, C. M. Single nanowire photovoltaics Chem. Soc. Rev. 2009, 38, 16-24
3. Wang, J.; Gudiksen, M. S.; Duan, X.; Cui, Y.; Lieber, C. M. Highly polarized photoluminescence and photodetection from single indium phosphide nanowires Science 2001, 293, 1455-1457
4. Muskens, O. L.; Gómez Rivas, J.; Algra, R. E.; Bakkers, E. P. A. M.; Lagendijk, A. Design of light scattering in nanowire materials for photovoltaic applications Nano Lett. 2008, 8, 2638-2642
5. Cao, L.; White, J. S.; Park, J.-S.; Schuller, J. A.; Clemens, B. M.; Brongersma, M. L. Engineering light absorption in semiconductor nanowire devices Nat. Mater. 2009, 8, 643-7
6. Wu, P. M.; Anttu, N.; Xu, H. Q.; Samuelson, L.; Pistol, M.-E. Colorful InAs nanowire arrays: From strong to weak absorption with geometrical tuning Nano Lett. 2012, 12, 1990-1995
7. Grzela, G.; Paniagua-Domínguez, R.; Barten, T.; Fontana, Y.; Sánchez-Gil, J. A.; Gómez Rivas, J. Nanowire antenna emission Nano Lett. 2012, 12, 5481-5486
8. Huang, M. H.; Mao, S.; Feick, H.; Yan, H.; Wu, Y.; Kind, H.; Weber, E.; Russo, R.; Yang, P. Room-temperature ultraviolet nanowire nanolasers Science 2001, 292, 1897-1899
9. Babinec, T. M.; Hausmann, B. J. M.; Khan, M.; Zhang, Y.; Maze, J. R.; Hemmer, P. R.; Loncar, M. A diamond nanowire single-photon source Nat. Nanotechnol. 2010, 5, 195-199
10. Claudon, J.; Bleuse, J.; Malik, N. S.; Bazin, M.; Gregersen, N.; Sauvan, C.; Lalanne, P.; Gerard, J.-M. A highly efficient single-photon source based on a quantum dot in a photonic nanowire Nat. Photonics 2010, 4, 174-177
11. Munsch, M.; Claudon, J.; Bleuse, J.; Malik, N.; Dupuy, E.; Gérard, J.-M.; Chen, Y.; Gregersen, N.; Mø rk, J. Linearly polarized, single-mode spontaneous emission in a photonic nanowire Phys. Rev. Lett. 2012, 108, 077405
12. Kelzenberg, M. D.; Boettcher, S. W.; Petykiewicz, J. A.; Turner-Evans, D. B.; Putnam, M. C.; Warren, E. L.; Spurgeon, J. M.; Briggs, R. M.; Lewis, N. S.; Atwater, H. A. Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications Nat. Mater. 2010, 9, 239-244
13. Brönstrup, G.; Jahr, N.; Leiterer, C.; Csáki, A.; Fritzsche, W.; Christiansen, S. Optical properties of individual silicon nanowires for photonic devices ACS Nano 2010, 4, 7113-7122
14. Cao, L.; Fan, P.; Vasudev, A. P.; White, J. S.; Yu, Z.; Cai, W.; Schuller, J. A.; Fan, S.; Brongersma, M. L. Semiconductor nanowire optical antenna solar absorbers Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 439-445
15. Garnett, E.; Yang, P. Light trapping in silicon nanowire solar cells Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 1082-1087
16. Diedenhofen, S. L.; Janssen, O. T. A.; Grzela, G.; Bakkers, E. P. A. M.; Gómez Rivas, J. Strong geometrical dependence of the absorption of light in arrays of semiconductor nanowires ACS Nano 2011, 5, 2316-2323
17. Wallentin, J.; Anttu, N.; Asoli, D.; Huffman, M.; Aberg, I.; Magnusson, M. H.; Siefer, G.; Fuss-Kailuweit, P.; Dimroth, F.; Witzigmann, B.; Xu, H. Q.; Samuelson, L.; Deppert, K.; Borgström, M. T. InP nanowire array solar cells achieving 13.8% efficiency by exceeding the ray optics limit Science 2013, 339, 1057-1060
18. Diedenhofen, S. L.; Vecchi, G.; Algra, R. E.; Hartsuiker, A.; Muskens, O. L.; Immink, G.; Bakkers, E. P. A. M.; Vos, W. L.; Gómez Rivas, J. Broad-band and Omnidirectional Antireflection Coatings Based on Semiconductor Nanorods Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 973-978
19. Paniagua-Domínguez, R.; Abujetas, D. R.; Sánchez-Gil, J. A. Ultra low-loss, isotropic optical negative-index metamaterial based on hybrid metal-semiconductor nanowires Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1507
20. Anttu, N. Geometrical optics, electrostatics, and nanophotonic resonances in absorbing nanowire arrays Opt. Lett. 2013, 38, 730-732
21. Seo, K.; Wober, M.; Steinvurzel, P.; Schonbrun, E.; Dan, Y.; Ellenbogen, T.; Crozier, K. B. Multicolored vertical silicon nanowires Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 1851-1856
22. Anttu, N.; Namazi, K. L.; Wu, P. M.; Yang, P.; Xu, H.; Xu, H. Q.; Håkanson, U. Drastically increased absorption in vertical semiconductor nanowire arrays: A non-absorbing dielectric shell makes the difference Nano Res. 2012, 5, 863-874
23. Anttu, N.; Xu, H. Q. Efficient light management in vertical nanowire arrays for photovoltaics Opt. Express 2013, 21, 27589-27605
24. Aghaeipour, M.; Anttu, N.; Nylund, G.; Samuelson, L.; Lehmann, S.; Pistol, M.-E. Tunable absorption resonances in the ultraviolet for InP nanowire arrays Opt. Express 2014, 22, 29204-29212
25. Fountaine, K. T.; Kendall, C. G.; Atwater, H. A. Near-unity broadband absorption designs for semiconducting nanowire arrays via localized radial mode excitation Opt. Express 2014, 22, A930-A940
26. Hu, L.; Chen, G. Analysis of optical absorption in silicon nanowire arrays for photovoltaic applications Nano Lett. 2007, 7, 3249-3252
27. Wang, B.; Leu, P. W. Tunable and selective resonant absorption in vertical nanowires Opt. Lett. 2012, 37, 3756-3758
28. Fountaine, K. T.; Whitney, W. S.; Atwater, H. A. Resonant absorption in semiconductor nanowires and nanowire arrays: Relating leaky waveguide modes to Bloch photonic crystal modes J. Appl. Phys. 2014, 116, 153106
29. Stratton, J. A. International Series in Pure and Applied Physics; McGraw-Hill Book Company: New York, 1941.
30. Arnbak, J. Leaky waves on a dielectric rod Electron. Lett. 1969, 5, 41-42
31. Sammut, R.; Snyder, A. W. Leaky modes on circular optical waveguides Appl. Opt. 1976, 15, 477-482
32. Bohren, C. F.; Huffman, D. R. Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles; Wiley: N.Y., 1998.
33. Ruda, H.; Shik, A. Polarization-sensitive optical phenomena in semiconducting and metallic nanowires Phys. Rev. B 2005, 72, 1-11
34. Ruda, H. E.; Shik, A. Polarization-sensitive optical phenomena in thick semiconducting nanowires J. Appl. Phys. 2006, 100, 024314
35. Zhan, Y.; Zhao, J.; Zhou, C.; Alemayehu, M.; Li, Y.; Li, Y. Enhanced photon absorption of single nanowire α-Si solar cells modulated by silver core Opt. Express 2012, 20, 11506-11516
36. Mann, S. A.; Garnett, E. C. Extreme light absorption in thin semiconductor films wrapped around metal nanowires Nano Lett. 2013, 13, 3173-3178
37. Grzela, G.; Paniagua-Domínguez, R.; Barten, T.; van Dam, D.; Sánchez-Gil, J. A.; Rivas, J. G. Nanowire antenna absorption probed with time-reversed fourier microscopy Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 3227-3234
38. Hu, J.; Menyuk, C. R. Understanding leaky modes: slab waveguide revisited Adv. Opt. Photonics 2009, 1, 58-106
39. Palik, E. D. Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids; Academic Press: New York, 1998; Vol. 1; p 900.
40. Rybin, M. V.; Samusev, K. B.; Sinev, I. S.; Semouchkin, G.; Semouchkina, E.; Kivshar, Y. S.; Limonov, M. V. Mie scattering as a cascade of Fano resonances Opt. Express 2013, 21, 825-828
41. Paniagua-Domínguez, R.; Grzela, G.; Gómez Rivas, J.; Sánchez-Gil, J. A. Enhanced and directional emission of semiconductor nanowires tailored through leaky/guided modes Nanoscale 2013, 5, 10582-10590