• DocumentCode
    2252016
  • Title

    Plasmonic nanostructures for angle selective photovoltaics

  • Author

    Roberts, Brian ; Ku, P.-C.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We describe an angular selective photovoltaic window, designed to transmit normally incident light and absorb off-angle light by exploiting an anisotropic plasmonic nanostructure. The principles of operation and numerical simulation results are presented.
  • Keywords
    nanostructured materials; numerical analysis; optical windows; plasmonics; solar cells; angular selective photovoltaic window; anisotropic plasmonic nanostructure; normally incident light; numerical simulation; off-angle light; Absorption; Optical scattering; Photovoltaic systems; Plasmons; Silver;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951100