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Light trapping in solar cells using resonant nanostructures
Spinelli, P.
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2013
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Spinelli, P. (2013). Light trapping in solar cells using resonant nanostructures.
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List of publications
This thesis is based on the following publications:
• Controlling Fano lineshapes in plasmon-mediated light coupling into a
sub-strate, P. Spinelli, M. van Lare, E. Verhagen and A. Polman, Optics Express 19,
A303-A311 (2011). (Chapter 3)
• Optical impedance matching using coupled plasmonic nanoparticle arrays, P. Spinelli, M. Hebbink, R. de Waele, L. Black, F. Lenzmann and A. Polman, Nano Letters 11, 1760-1765 (2011). (Chapter 4)
• Prospects of near-field plasmonic absorption enhancement in semiconductor
materials using embedded Ag nanoparticles, P. Spinelli and A. Polman, Optics
Express 20, A641-A654 (2012). (Chapter 5)
• Broadband omnidirectional antireflection coating based on subwavelength
surface Mie resonators, P. Spinelli, M. A. Verschuuren and A. Polman, Nature
Communications 3, 692 (2012). (Chapter 6)
• Light trapping in thin crystalline Si solar cells using surface Mie scatterers, P. Spinelli and A. Polman, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 3, in press (2013).
(Chapter 7)
• Experimental demonstration of light trapping beyond the 4n2limit in thin Si slabs using resonant surface Si Mie scatterers, P. Spinelli, C. Teplin, M. A.
Verschuuren and A. Polman, in preparation. (Chapter 8)
• Al2O3/TiO2nano-pattern antireflection coating with ultralow surface recom-bination, P. Spinelli, B. Macco, M. A. Verschuuren, W. M. M. Kessels and A.
Polman, Applied Physics Letters 102, 233902 (2013). (Chapter 9)
• Effect of EVA encapsulation on light trapping in thin-film c-Si solar cells by
us-ing plasmonic and Mie nanoscatterers, P. Spinelli, B. Newman and A. Polman,
in preparation. (Chapter 10)
List of publications
Other publications by the author:
• Microphotonic parabolic light directors fabricated by two-photon lithography, J. H. Atwater, P. Spinelli, E. D. Kosten, J. Parsons, M. van Lare, J. van de Groep, F. J. García de Abajo, A. Polman and H. A. Atwater, Applied Physics Letters 99, 151113 (2011).
• Plasmonic light trapping in thin-film Si solar cells, P. Spinelli, V. E. Ferry, J. van de Groep, M. van Lare, M. A. Verschuuren, R. E. I. Schropp, H. A. Atwater and A. Polman, Journal of Optics 14, 024002 (2012).
• Transparent conducting silver nanowire networks, J. van de Groep, P. Spinelli and A. Polman, Nano Letters 12, 3138-3144 (2012).