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Published March 11, 2011 | Version public
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Light Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Solar Cells Using Whispering Gallery Modes in Dielectric Nanospheres

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Abstract

Freely propagating sunlight can be diffractively coupled and transformed into several guided whispering gallery modes within an array of wavelength scale dielectric spheres. Incident optical power is then transferred to the thin-film cell by leaky mode coupling into a thin solar cell absorber layer and significantly enhances its efficiency by increasing the fraction of incident light absorbed.

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© 2011 Wiley. Received: November 30, 2010. Published online: January 25, 2011. This work was supported by the Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science through the Light Material Interactions Energy Frontier Research Center under contract number DE-SC0001293.

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Eprint ID
23037
DOI
10.1002/adma.201004393
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CaltechAUTHORS:20110322-091415535

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10.1002/adma.201004393 (DOI)

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Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-SC0001293

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2011-03-22
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2023-04-19
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