Recent progress of surface plasmon–enhanced light trapping in GaAs thin-film solar cells

B Wei, X Mao, W Liu, C Ji, G Yang, Y Bao, X Chen… - Plasmonics, 2023 - Springer
Light trapping technology is one of the effective ways to improve the performance of solar
cells, which can enhance the light absorption and reduce the thickness of the material and …

Ultra-broadband nanostructured metamaterial absorber based on stacked square-layers of TiN/TiO2

S Mehrabi, RMH Bilal, MA Naveed… - Optical Materials Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Metamaterial-based nano-scale absorbers have been becoming very popular in the modern
era due to efficiently absorbing solar radiation to revamp the performance characteristics of …

Broadband plasmonic metamaterial optical absorber for the visible to near-infrared region

A Musa, T Alam, MT Islam, ML Hakim, H Rmili… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
An oblique angle and polarization insensitive metamaterial absorber (MA) are highly
desired for the visible and infrared optical applications like, wave energy harvesting, optical …

Graphene-based highly efficient and broadband solar absorber

SK Patel, S Charola, C Jani, M Ladumor, J Parmar… - Optical Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose graphene-based solar absorber for broadband absorption response. The
absorber is designed by sandwich graphene layer between the dielectric layer and …

Metasurface based broadband solar absorber

D Katrodiya, C Jani, V Sorathiya, SK Patel - Optical Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Metasurface based broadband solar absorber using circular gold resonators is presented.
The proposed design is first analysed in terms of its geometrical parameters to study its …

Active Tuning from Narrowband to Broadband Absorbers Using a Sub-wavelength VO2 Embedded Layer

A Kalantari Osgouei, H Hajian, B Khalichi… - Plasmonics, 2021 - Springer
Metamaterial perfect absorbers (MPAs) with dynamic thermal tuning features are able to
control the absorption performance of the resonances, providing diverse applications …

Broadband metamaterial absorber in the visible region using a petal-shaped resonator for solar cell applications

R Kumar, BK Singh, PC Pandey - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present an efficient broadband metamaterial (MM) solar spectrum absorber with a wide
incident angle and polarization-insensitive absorption. Proposed absorber is a three layers …

Numerical investigation of gold metasurface based broadband near-infrared and near-visible solar absorber

J Parmar, SK Patel, D Katrodiya, TK Nguyen… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present broadband solar absorber using gold metasurface resonators. The gold
metasurface resonators are placed above MgF 2 substrate and tungsten ground plane. MgF …

Numerical analysis of single negative broadband metamaterial absorber based on tri thin layer material in visible spectrum for solar cell energy harvesting

A Hoque, MT Islam - Plasmonics, 2020 - Springer
A broadband nanostructure metamaterial absorber (MA) based on tri-layer metallic-optical-
thin film molded shape is proposed for visible spectrum solar energy scavenging. This MA is …

Perfect selective metamaterial absorber with thin-film of GaAs layer in the visible region for solar cell applications

R Kumar, BK Singh, RK Tiwari, PC Pandey - Optical and Quantum …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we have presented a new design of a metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA)
consisting of three layers of metal-dielectric-metal in which the top layer is considered of …