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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages A412-A418Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.00A412
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- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion of Spain [ENE2009-13430]
- PROMEP
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Optical antennas have been proposed as an alternative option for solar energy harvesting. In this work the power conversion efficiency of broadband antennas, log-periodic, square-spiral, and archimedian-spiral antennas, coupled to Metal-Insulator-Metal and Esaki rectifying diodes has been obtained from both theoretical and numerical simulation perspectives. The results show efficiencies in the order of 10(-6) to 10(-9) for these rectifying mechanisms, which is very low for practical solar energy harvesting applications. This is mainly caused by the poor performance of diodes at the given frequencies and also due to the antenna-diode impedance mismatch. If only losses due to antenna-diode impedance mismatch are considered an efficiency of about 10(-3) would be obtained. In order to make optical antennas useful for solar energy harvesting new rectification devices or a different harvesting mechanism should be used. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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