Over the past few decades, metal nanoparticles less than 100 nm in diameter have made a
substantial impact across diverse biomedical applications, such as diagnostic and medical …

Health, infrastructure, and environmental monitoring as well as networking and defense
technologies are only some of the potential areas of application of micro‐/nanosystems …

Silicon (Si) photovoltaic devices present possible avenues for overcoming global energy
and environmental challenges. The high reflection and surface recombination losses …

Although the library of 2D atomic crystals has greatly expanded over the past years,
research into graphene is still one of the focuses for both academia and business …

Physical mechanisms unique to plasmonic materials, which can be exploited for the existing
and emerging applications of plasmonics for renewable energy technologies, are reviewed …

Nanoplasmonics is a rapidly growing field of research that opens up multiple opportunities
toward practical applications. The understanding of the extreme confinement of light at the …

Plasmonic metal nanoparticles are of great interest for light trapping in thin-film silicon solar
cells. In this Letter, we demonstrate experimentally that a back reflector with plasmonic Ag …

Light collection efficiency is an important factor that affects the performance of many optical
and optoelectronic devices. In these devices, the high reflectivity of interfaces can hinder …

Recent advances in fabrication and processing methods have spurred many breakthroughs
in the field of nanostructures that provide novel ways of manipulating light interaction on a …

It is been widely reported that plasmonic effects in metallic nanomaterials can enhance light
trapping in organix solar cells (OSCs). However, typical nanoparticles (NP) of high quality …