Design of periodic metal-insulator-metal waveguide back structures for the enhancement of light absorption in thin-film solar cells

To increase the absorption in a thin layer of absorbing material (amorphous silicon, a-Si), a light trapping design is presented. The designed structure incorporates periodic metal-insulator-metal waveguides to enhance the optical path length of light within the solar cells. The new design can result in broadband optical absorption enhancement not only for transverse magnetic (TM)-polarized light, but also for transverse electric (TE)-polarized light. No plasmonic modes can be excited in TE-polarization, but because of the coupling into the a-Si planar waveguide guiding modes and the diffraction of light by the bottom periodic structures into higher diffraction orders, the total absorption in the active region is also increased. The results from rigorous coupled wave analysis show that the overall optical absorption in the active layer can be greatly enhanced by up to 40%. The designed structures presented in this paper can be integrated with back contact technology to potentially produce high-efficiency thin-film solar cell devices.     

A concave photonic crystal waveguide with a corrugated surface for high-quality focusing

A concave two-dimensional(2D) photonic crystal waveguide(PCW) with corrugated surface is theoretically used as a focusing structure.To design this structure,a genetic algorithm is combined with the finite-difference time-domain method.For PCWs with different degrees of concaveness,the power reaches about 80% at different focusing points when the morphology of the concave surface is optimized.More importantly,the focusing location is easily controlled by changing the location of the detector placed in the output field.     

一维电-磁介质互联的光子晶体偏振带通滤波器

传统一维纯电介质光子晶体较难实现TE偏振带通滤波,而且每种偏振滤波器的禁带很窄.本文基于不同电磁参量占主导地位控制不同偏振波禁带较宽的特性,利用一维光子晶体禁带带边交叉的方法设计了TE偏振滤波器、TM偏振滤波器和双偏振滤波器.每种滤波结构均为包含电介质和磁性材料的异质结,因此实现各种滤波的同时也展宽了禁带范围.由于电-...     

金属-电介质多层膜结构亚波长成像特性分析(英文)

分析了由Ag和Si3N4多层纳米薄膜组成的特异材料的模式特性,使用本征模展开法(EME)结合完全匹配层(PML)边界条件模拟了该结构的亚波长成像行为,在法布里-珀罗(Fabry-Perot)条件(结构的长度是半波长的整数倍)条件下,研究发现邻近系统的点源会在另一侧成实像,这种成像基于自准直而并不是负折射.研究结果证实了金属-电介质多层膜结构可以在光波段实现近场成像.     

利用一维电介质和磁光子晶体设计宽带全方向全反镜

研究了基于一维电介质-磁光子晶体的全方向全反射镜（简称全反镜）。利用传输矩阵法分析了全反镜的传输特性。为了获得宽频带全反镜，利用十进制遗传算法优化全反镜的结构参数，即层厚度系数与周期数。设计过程逐步详细阐述。计算结果指出，随着参加优化的变量（厚度系数和周期数）数增多，全反带更宽，薄膜层数更少、结构总厚度更薄。最后得到了一个宽带全反镜 (0.255A0.255B)5(0.169A0.066B)8，其带宽可达1.34ω0，而薄膜层数大幅降为26层，总厚度仅为1.8634λ0，结构也非常简单。