@inproceedings{4209319bdf3041068920ad126aea62bf,
title = "Efficiency enhancement of amorphous-silicon tandem solar cell due to multiple surface-plasmon-polariton waves",
abstract = "The reflectances of a thin-film solar cell were computed, using the rigorous coupled-wave approach, as functions of the angle of incidence and the free-space wavelength for illumination by linearly polarized plane waves. The metallic back-reflector was taken to be periodically corrugated and the solar cell was considered to be a tandem solar cell made of amorphous-silicon alloys. Low-reflectance bands in the reflectance spectrums were correlated with the solutions of the underlying canonical boundary-value problem to delineate the excitation of surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves. The total reflectance was lowered in the near-infrared spectral regime when multiple SPP waves of both linear polarization states were excited, thereby enhancing the absorption of light.",
author = "Muhammad Faryad and Akhlesh Lakhtakia",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1117/12.2003190",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819493897",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices II",
note = "2nd Symposium on Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices ; Conference date: 03-02-2013 Through 07-02-2013",
}