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Light Harvesting: Nanoscale Tailored Plasmonic Material for Optimum Broadband Solar Harvesting (Advanced Optical Materials 3/2016)
Author(s) -
McCleanIlten Éadaoin,
Zerulla Dominic
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.201670013
Subject(s) - materials science , plasmon , plasmonic solar cell , nanoscopic scale , optoelectronics , broadband , organic solar cell , surface plasmon polariton , absorption (acoustics) , solar cell , surface plasmon , optics , nanotechnology , polymer solar cell , physics , composite material , polymer
The inside cover depicts an analytically derived optimum solution to broadband plasmonic enhancement of solar harvesting: a nanoscale metal topography, capable of significantly improving the efficiency of solid state solar cells via excitation of surface plasmon polaritons, which is described on page 413. The structure presented by D. Zerulla and É. McClean‐Ilten consists of a superposition of Bessel functions leading to high weighted absorption enhancements (>130%) and unprecedented improvements (>30%) of solar cell external quantum efficiencies over the entire harvestable range.