DocumentCode
1649198
Title
Effect of aperiodicity on the broadband reflection of silicon nanorod structures for photovoltaics
Author
Lin, Chenxi ; Huang, Ningfeng ; Povinelli, Michelle L.
Author_Institution
Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fYear
2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We study the effect of aperiodicity on silicon nanorod antireflection structures. Numerical results reveal that randomness is beneficial for small nanorod sizes. A guided random walk algorithm is used to obtain optimized aperiodic structures.
Keywords
elemental semiconductors; nanorods; silicon; solar cells; Si; aperiodicity effect; broadband reflection; guided random walk; optimized aperiodic structures; photovoltaics; silicon nanorod antireflection structures; small nanorod sizes; Broadband communication; Fabrication; Nanostructures; Periodic structures; Reflection; Reflectivity; Silicon;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1839-6
Type
conf
Filename
6325492
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