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Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays
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: Received: 5 February 2018 / Approved: 6 February 2018 / Online: 6 February 2018 (00:48:21 CET)
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Prajapati, A.; Nissan, Y.; Gabay, T.; Shalev, G. Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays. Materials 2018, 11, 445. Prajapati, A.; Nissan, Y.; Gabay, T.; Shalev, G. Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays. Materials 2018, 11, 445.
Abstract
Silicon light funnels are three-dimensional subwavelength structures in the shape of inverted cones with respect to the incoming illumination. Light funnel arrays can serve as an efficient absorbing layers on account of their light trapping capabilities associated with the presence of high density complex Mie modes. Specifically, light funnel arrays exhibit broadband absorption enhancement of the of the solar spectrum. In the current study, we numerically explore the optical coupling between surface light funnel arrays and underlying substrates. We show that the absorption in LF array-substrate complex is higher than the absorption in LF arrays of the same height (~10% increase). This, we suggest, imply that a LF array serves as an efficient surface element that imparts additional momentum components to the impinging illumination, and hence optically excites the substrate by near-field light concentration, excitation of traveling guided modes in the substrate and mode hybridization.
Keywords
light trapping; photovoltaics; solar cells; light-funnel arrays; nanophotonics; photon management; mode excitation
Subject
Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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