Plasmonic Near-Field Enhancement for Planar Ultra-Thin Photovoltaics

We propose a planar ultrathin absorber concept exploiting plasmonic resonance absorption enhancement. We calculate a maximum absorption of 89.8% for TM-polarized normally incident light in a 5-nm thin-film absorber with a single-pass absorption of only 1.7%, i.e., a 53 times increase in absorption....

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Main Authors: Zhu Wang, Thomas P. White, Kylie R. Catchpole
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2013-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6588923/