Published March 11, 2011
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Journal Article
Light Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Solar Cells Using Whispering Gallery Modes in Dielectric Nanospheres
Chicago
Abstract
Freely propagating sunlight can be diffractively coupled and transformed into several guided whispering gallery modes within an array of wavelength scale dielectric spheres. Incident optical power is then transferred to the thin-film cell by leaky mode coupling into a thin solar cell absorber layer and significantly enhances its efficiency by increasing the fraction of incident light absorbed.
Additional Information
© 2011 Wiley. Received: November 30, 2010. Published online: January 25, 2011. This work was supported by the Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science through the Light Material Interactions Energy Frontier Research Center under contract number DE-SC0001293.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 23037
- DOI
- 10.1002/adma.201004393
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20110322-091415535
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-SC0001293
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- Kavli Nanoscience Institute