Complex Photonic Structures for Light Harvesting

Plasmonic Effects of Au/Ag Bimetallic Multispiked Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Applications

(2014) Manisha Sharma et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Diffractive intermediate layer enables broadband light trapping for high efficiency ultrathin c-Si tandem cells

(2014) Guijun Li et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Disorder improves nanophotonic light trapping in thin-film solar cells

(2014) U. W. Paetzold et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Efficiency enhancement of InGaN/GaN solar cells with nanostructures

(2014) J. Bai et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Tandem photonic-crystal thin films surpassing Lambertian light-trapping limit over broad bandwidth and angular range

(2014) Ardavan Oskooi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Comparison of Ag and SiO2 Nanoparticles for Light Trapping Applications in Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells

(2014) Martin Theuring et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Nanopyramid Structure for Ultrathin c-Si Tandem Solar Cells

(2014) Guijun Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Improved performance and stability in quantum dot solar cells through band alignment engineering

(2014) Chia-Hao M. Chuang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Engineering of light confinement in strongly scattering disordered media

(2014) Francesco Riboli et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Plasmon-induced hot-electron generation at nanoparticle/metal-oxide interfaces for photovoltaic and photocatalytic devices

(2014) César Clavero   Nature Photonics

Enhancement of optical absorption in the amorphous silicon solar cell with periodic wave grating structure

(2014) Kun Huang et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Mode-based analysis of silicon nanohole arrays for photovoltaic applications

(2014) Justin L. Donnelly et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

How to assess light trapping structures versus a Lambertian Scatterer for solar cells?

(2014) Christian S Schuster et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Periodic anti-ring back reflectors for hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin-film solar cells

(2014) Po-Yuan Chen et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Photonic nanostructures for advanced light trapping in thin crystalline silicon solar cells

(2014) Christos Trompoukis et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Analysis of optical absorption and quantum efficiency due to light trapping in a n-i-p type amorphous silicon solar cell with textured back reflector

(2014) S. M. Iftiquar et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Light Transport and Localization in Two-Dimensional Correlated Disorder

(2014) Gaurasundar M. Conley et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Micrometer-Thin Crystalline-Silicon Solar Cells Integrating Numerically Optimized 2-D Photonic Crystals

(2014) Valerie Depauw et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Methyl/Allyl Monolayer on Silicon: Efficient Surface Passivation for Silicon-Conjugated Polymer Hybrid Solar Cell

(2013) Fute Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Diffusion-Controlled Synthesis of PbS and PbSe Quantum Dots with in Situ Halide Passivation for Quantum Dot Solar Cells

(2013) Jianbing Zhang et al.   ACS Nano

Imprinted Electrodes for Enhanced Light Trapping in Solution Processed Solar Cells

(2013) Agustín Mihi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Polarization-independent efficiency enhancement of organic solar cells by using 3-dimensional plasmonic electrode

(2013) Xuanhua Li et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Super-Lambertian photocurrent-generation in solar cells with periodically textured interfaces

(2013) F.-J. Haug et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Enhanced light scattering in Si nanostructures produced by pulsed laser irradiation

(2013) P. M. Sberna et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Hot spot engineering for light absorption enhancement of solar cells with a super-structured transparent conducting electrode

(2013) R. Smaali et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Highly efficient poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate)/Si hybrid solar cells with imprinted nanopyramid structures

(2013) Jheng-Yuan Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Combined three-dimensional electromagnetic and device modeling of surface plasmon-enhanced organic solar cells incorporating low aspect ratio silver nanoprisms

(2013) Wenjun Jiang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Improved visible solar absorber based on TiO2 nanotube film by surface-loading of plasmonic Au nanoparticles

(2013) Zhufeng Shao et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Light trapping efficiency of periodic and quasiperiodic back-reflectors for thin film solar cells: A comparative study

(2013) A. Micco et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Radiative behaviors of crystalline silicon nanowire and nanohole arrays for photovoltaic applications

(2013) Xing Fang et al.   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Core–Shell and Asymmetric Polystyrene–Gold Composite Particles via One-Step Pickering Emulsion Polymerization

(2013) Mingmeng Zhang et al.   LANGMUIR

Comparison of pillar-array and hole-array patterned Si solar cells

(2013) Seung-Hyouk Hong et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Thin-film silicon solar cell development on imprint-textured glass substrates

(2013) Ulrich Wilhelm Paetzold et al.   Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials

Refractive index graded anti-reflection coating for solar cells based on low cost reclaimed silicon

(2013) Yufei Liu et al.   MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Jointly Tuned Plasmonic–Excitonic Photovoltaics Using Nanoshells

(2013) Daniel Paz-Soldan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Large-Area Free-Standing Ultrathin Single-Crystal Silicon as Processable Materials

(2013) Shuang Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-Efficiency Nanostructured Window GaAs Solar Cells

(2013) Dong Liang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Novel Nanostructured Paper with Ultrahigh Transparency and Ultrahigh Haze for Solar Cells

(2013) Zhiqiang Fang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Broadband and omnidirectional antireflection of Si nanocone structures cladded by SiN film for Si thin film solar cells

(2013) Yanyan Wang et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Light harvesting enhancement in solar cells with quasicrystalline plasmonic structures

(2013) Christina Bauer et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Plasmonically enhanced hot electron based photovoltaic device

(2013) Fatih B. Atar et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

A generalized “cut and projection” algorithm for the generation of quasiperiodic plasmonic concentrators for high efficiency ultra-thin film photovoltaics

(2013) Patrick W. Flanigan et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical absorption characteristics of nanometer and submicron a-Si:H solar cells with two kinds of nano textures

(2013) Xie Ziang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Incorporation of nanovoids into metallic gratings for broadband plasmonic organic solar cells

(2013) Sangjun Lee et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Light trapping in thin-film solar cells with randomly rough and hybrid textures

(2013) Piotr Kowalczewski et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Two-dimensional disorder for broadband, omnidirectional and polarization-insensitive absorption

(2013) Matteo Burresi et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Enhancement of organic solar cell efficiency by patterning the PEDOT:PSS hole transport layer using nanoimprint lithography

(2013) Je-Hong Choi et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Power conversion efficiency enhancement of organic solar cells by addition of gold nanostars, nanorods, and nanospheres

(2013) Duygu Kozanoglu et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Microlens array induced light absorption enhancement in polymer solar cells

(2013) Yuqing Chen et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Absorption control in pseudodisordered photonic-crystal thin films

(2013) Romain Peretti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Fabrication of ultra-small texture arrays on multicrystalline silicon surface for solar cell application

(2013) Bingfei Dou et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Interdigitated front contact crystalline silicon solar cell

(2013) Youngmoon Choi et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Frequential and temporal analysis of two-dimensional photonic crystals for absorption enhancement in organic solar cells

(2013) L. Peres et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Management of light-trapping effect for a-Si:H/µc-Si:H tandem solar cells using novel substrates, based on MOCVD ZnO and etched white glass

(2013) Bancha Janthong et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Efficiency improvement of organic solar cells with imprint of nanostructures by capillary force lithography

(2013) Yu-Shun Cheng et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Effective light trapping enhanced near-UV/blue light absorption in inverted polymer solar cells via sol–gel textured Al-doped ZnO buffer layer

(2013) Xuan Yu et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Fabrication of an ultra-thin silicon solar cell and nano-scale honeycomb structure by thermal-stress-induced pattern transfer method

(2013) Chen-Hsun Du et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

Insights in the light trapping effect in silicon solar cells with backside diffraction gratings

(2013) Markus Wellenzohn et al.   Journal of Photonics for Energy

Self-Assembled Plasmonic Oligomers for Organic Photovoltaics

(2013) Francesco Pastorelli et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Insight into the 3D Architecture and Quasicrystal Symmetry of Multilayer Nanorod Assemblies from Moiré Interference Patterns

(2012) Ajay Singh et al.   ACS Nano

Nanoimprinted Polymer Solar Cell

(2012) Yi Yang et al.   ACS Nano

Light Trapping in Solar Cells: Can Periodic Beat Random?

(2012) Corsin Battaglia et al.   ACS Nano

Nanostructured Metallo-Dielectric Quasi-Crystals: Towards Photonic-Plasmonic Resonance Engineering

(2012) Alessio Crescitelli et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Surface-plasmon enhanced absorption in organic solar cells by employing a periodically corrugated metallic electrode

(2012) Yu Jin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Enhanced photocurrent in crystalline silicon solar cells by hybrid plasmonic antireflection coatings

(2012) Narges F. Fahim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Partially disordered photonic-crystal thin films for enhanced and robust photovoltaics

(2012) Ardavan Oskooi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Plasmonic absorption enhancement in organic solar cells by nano disks in a buffer layer

(2012) Inho Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Rapid Fabrication of Large-Area Periodic Structures by Multiple Exposure of Two-Beam Interference

(2012) Lei Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

A novel structured plastic substrate for light confinement in thin film silicon solar cells by a geometric optical effect

(2012) M.M. de Jong et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS

Inline deposited thin-film silicon solar cells on imprinted foil using linear PECVD sources

(2012) Bas B. Van Aken et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS

Improved efficiency of multicrystalline silicon solar cells by TiO2 antireflection coatings derived by APCVD process

(2012) D. Hocine et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING

High-Rotational Symmetry Lattices Fabricated by Moiré Nanolithography

(2012) Steven M. Lubin et al.   NANO LETTERS

Efficient Light Trapping in Inverted Nanopyramid Thin Crystalline Silicon Membranes for Solar Cell Applications

(2012) Anastassios Mavrokefalos et al.   NANO LETTERS

An optimized surface plasmon photovoltaic structure using energy transfer between discrete nano-particles

(2012) Albert Lin et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Nano-patterned glass superstrates with different aspect ratios for enhanced light harvesting in a-Si:H thin film solar cells

(2012) Ting-Gang Chen et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Plasmonic core-shell metal-organic nanoparticles enhanced dye-sensitized solar cells

(2012) Qi Xu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Plasmonic-photonic arrays with aperiodic spiral order for ultra-thin film solar cells

(2012) Jacob Trevino et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Ultrathin, high-efficiency, broad-band, omni-acceptance, organic solar cells enhanced by plasmonic cavity with subwavelength hole array

(2012) Stephen Y. Chou et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Photonic light-trapping versus Lambertian limits in thin film silicon solar cells with 1D and 2D periodic patterns

(2012) Angelo Bozzola et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Enhanced downconversion of UV light by resonant scattering of aluminum nanoparticles

(2012) Rajeshkumar Mupparapu et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Engineering Gaussian disorder at rough interfaces for light trapping in thin-film solar cells

(2012) Piotr Kowalczewski et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Engineering gratings for light trapping in photovoltaics: The supercell concept

(2012) Emiliano R. Martins et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermodynamic Upper Bound on Broadband Light Coupling with Photonic Structures

(2012) Zongfu Yu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Plasmonic Scattering by Metal Nanoparticles for Solar Cells

(2012) Alessio Paris et al.   Plasmonics

Ebeam fabrication of silicon nanodome photovoltaic devices without metal catalyst contamination

(2012) Ian Y.Y. Bu et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Concentrating microlens array mounted on an InGaP/GaAs/Ge solar cell for photovoltaic performance enhancement

(2012) Minwoo Nam et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Effect of nanotextured back reflectors on light trapping in flexible silicon thin-film solar cells

(2012) Jun-Sik Cho et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Comparative experimental and simulative investigations of radial p–n junction Si microwire array solar cells

(2012) Eunsongyi Lee et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Optimal wavelength scale diffraction gratings for light trapping in solar cells

(2012) Teck Kong Chong et al.   Journal of Optics

Transparent double-period electrode with effective light management for thin film solar cells

(2012) Susu Yang et al.   RSC Advances

Near-field multiple scattering effects of plasmonic nanospheres embedded into thin-film organic solar cells

(2011) Wei E. I. Sha et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Black thin film silicon

(2011) Svetoslav Koynov et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Deterministic aperiodic nanostructures for photonics and plasmonics applications

(2011) L. Dal Negro et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Polarization dependent solar cell conversion efficiency at oblique incident angles and the corresponding improvement using surface nanoparticle coating

(2011) Yen-Jen Hung et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Comparing plasmonic and dielectric gratings for absorption enhancement in thin-film organic solar cells

(2011) Khai Q. Le et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Approaching the Lambertian limit in randomly textured thin-film solar cells

(2011) Stephan Fahr et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optimization-based design of surface textures for thin-film Si solar cells

(2011) Xing Sheng et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Nanoplasmonics: past, present, and glimpse into future

(2011) Mark I. Stockman   OPTICS EXPRESS

Anderson localization of near-visible light in two dimensions

(2011) F. Riboli et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Enhanced omnidirectional photon coupling via quasi-periodic patterning of indium-tin-oxide for organic thin-film solar cells

(2011) Ping-Chen Tseng et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Evidence of guided resonances in photonic quasicrystal slabs

(2011) Armando Ricciardi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Nanoimprint patterning for tunable light trapping in large-area silicon solar cells

(2011) Aleksander Bessonov et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Coupling of plasmonic and optical cavity modes in quasi-three-dimensional plasmonic crystals

(2011) Debashis Chanda et al.   Nature Communications

For the Bright Future-Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiency of 7.4%

(2010) Yongye Liang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanowaveguides and couplers based on hybrid plasmonic modes

(2010) Jie Tian et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Photocurrent increase in n-i-p thin film silicon solar cells by guided mode excitation via grating coupler

(2010) Karin Söderström et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Anti-reflecting and photonic nanostructures

(2010) S. Chattopadhyay et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS

Erratum: Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications

(2010) Michael D. Kelzenberg et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices

(2010) Harry A. Atwater et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Plasmonics beyond the diffraction limit

(2010) Dmitri K. Gramotnev et al.   Nature Photonics

Comparison and optimization of randomly textured surfaces in thin-film solar cells

(2010) C. Rockstuhl et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Light trapping in ultrathin plasmonic solar cells

(2010) Vivian E. Ferry et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Fundamental limit of light trapping in grating 
structures

(2010) Zongfu Yu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Fundamental limit of nanophotonic light trapping in solar cells

(2010) Zongfu Yu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conjugated Polymer/Metal Nanowire Heterostructure Plasmonic Antennas

(2009) Deirdre M. O'Carroll et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanowire Plasmon Excitation by Adiabatic Mode Transformation

(2009) Ewold Verhagen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Colloidal Gold and Silver Triangular Nanoprisms

(2009) Jill E. Millstone et al.   Small

Plasmonic nanocavity arrays for enhanced efficiency in organic photovoltaic cells

(2008) Nathan C. Lindquist et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Design principles for particle plasmon enhanced solar cells

(2008) K. R. Catchpole et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Absorption enhancement in solar cells by localized plasmon polaritons

(2008) Carsten Rockstuhl et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Enhanced Nanoplasmonic Optical Sensors with Reduced Substrate Effect

(2008) Alexandre Dmitriev et al.   NANO LETTERS

Plasmonic Nanostructure Design for Efficient Light Coupling into Solar Cells

(2008) Vivian E. Ferry et al.   NANO LETTERS

Plasmonic solar cells

(2008) K. R. Catchpole et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS