Photonic metamaterial absorber designs for infrared solar-cell applications
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Date
2010Journal Title
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN
0277786X
Volume
7772
Language
English
Type
Conference Paper
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http://hdl.handle.net/11693/28537Abstract
We propose a metamaterial based absorber design that operates at the infrared regime. The absorption peak was 83.6%. We can incorporate solar-cell layers inside the metamaterial absorber in order to significantly increase solar-cell efficiency. © 2010 SPIE.
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