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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages A265-A269Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A265
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- Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0000957]
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Conventional semi-transparent photovoltaics suffer from an inherent tradeoff between the amount of visible light transmitted versus absorbed, reducing energy conversion efficiency when higher transparency is desired. As a solution to lift this tradeoff, we propose a wavelength and angular selective reflector and demonstrate a potential implementation utilizing high aspect ratio metal nanoparticles. Using the anisotropy in the localized surface plasmon resonance wavelength, the proposed device can selectively harness sunlight incident at an elevated angle, increasing the power conversion efficiency by a factor of 1.44, while maintaining 70 percent optical transparency at normal incidence. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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