The assembly of colloidal building-blocks is an efficient, inexpensive and flexible approach
for the fabrication of a wide variety of photonic materials with designed shapes and large …

Low-cost, wideband, and wide-angle antireflective layers are of prime importance to
photovoltaic and other optoelectronic applications. We report a novel fabrication …

A silicon substrate with micro-pyramid structure (black silicon) is prepared by wet chemical
etching and then subjected to reactive ion etching (RIE) in the mixed gas condition of SF 6 …

An integrated functional anti-reflective surface is of great significance for optical and
optoelectronic devices. Hence, its preparation has attracted great attention from many …

Advances in high-efficiency solar cells introduce photon management challenges, including
the difficult texturization of flat surfaces and low photon utilization at short wavelengths …

Light trapping is essential to improve the performance of thin film solar cells. In this paper,
we performed a parametric optimization of double-sided skewed nanopyramid arrays that …

We report the design and optimization of photonic crystal (PhC) structures within the
crystalline silicon absorption layer in ultrathin solar cells with a frequency upconversion …

Nanopillar arrays over the photodetector's surface attribute an enhanced coupling efficiency
of incident light due to its various light trapping mechanisms that contribute towards high …

With the aggravation of the energy crisis, large‐scale use of hydrogen energy is gradually
becoming one of the promising ways to tackle the energy crisis. Among many hydrogen …

Optical antennas are nanostructures that introduce unprecedented possibilities for light–
matter interaction at the nanoscale. An appropriately tailored plasmonic antenna can …