A broadband solar absorber with 12 nm thick ultrathin a-Si layer by using random metallic nanomeshes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 25, 2014, Pages

  Sun, Tianyi ^a,b   Guo, Chuan Fei ^a   Cao, Feng ^a   Akinoglu, Eser Metin ^c   Wang, Yang ^d   Giersig, Michael ^c,e   Ren, Zhifeng ^a   Kempa, Krzysztof ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ACTIVE LAYER; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; RANDOM SCATTERING; VISIBLE RANGE;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

EID: 84975214211     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4884936     Document Type: Article

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