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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
