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Plasmonics for photovoltaic applications
Supriya Pillai,Martin A. Green +1 more
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In this article, surface plasmons are used to enhance the light trapping properties of thin-film solar cells by tuning the surface plasmon resonance to enhance absorption in the wavelength region required.About:
This article is published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.The article was published on 2010-09-01. It has received 475 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Plasmonic solar cell & Surface plasmon.read more
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Surface plasmon resonance in gold nanoparticles: a review.
TL;DR: The general overview of the field and the background for appropriate modelling of the physical phenomena are provided and the current state of the art and most recent applications of plasmon resonance in Au NPs are reported.
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Surface plasmons in metallic nanoparticles: fundamentals and applications
TL;DR: An overview of surface plasmons in metallic nanoparticles can be found in this article, where a comparison with simple linear oscillators is made with the most common approximations.
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Nanomaterials For Energy Conversion And Storage
TL;DR: The limitations and challenges of nanostructured materials while being used for solar cells, lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors, and hydrogen storage systems have also been addressed in this review.
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Compound Copper Chalcogenide Nanocrystals
TL;DR: This review captures the synthesis, assembly, properties, and applications of copper chalcogenide NCs, which have achieved significant research interest in the last decade due to their compositional and structural versatility.
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Engineering metallic nanostructures for plasmonics and nanophotonics
TL;DR: This review focuses on top-down nanofabrication techniques for engineering metallic nanostructures, along with computational and experimental characterization techniques, for a variety of current and emerging applications.
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Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles
TL;DR: In this paper, a Potpourri of Particles is used to describe surface modes in small Particles and the Angular Dependence of Scattering is shown to be a function of the size of the particles.
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Optical Properties of Metal Clusters
U. Kreibig,Michael Vollmer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of optical spectra of Elemental Metal Clusters and Chain Aggregates and discuss experimental results and experimental methods for metal clustering experiments.
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Surface plasmon enhanced silicon solar cells
TL;DR: Pillai and Catchpole this article acknowledge the UNSW Faculty of Engineering Research Scholarship and the support of an Australian Research Council fellowship, which they used to support their work in this article.
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Nanoimprint Lithography: Methods and Material Requirements**
TL;DR: In this paper, the basic principles of nano-printing are discussed, with an emphasis on the requirements on materials for the imprinting mold, surface properties, and resist materials for successful and reliable nanostructure replication.
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Plasmonic solar cells
Kylie R. Catchpole,Albert Polman +1 more
TL;DR: The scattering from metal nanoparticles near their localized plasmon resonance is a promising way of increasing the light absorption in thin-film solar cells and experimental and theoretical progress is reviewed.