• 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