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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
