Broadband optical absorption by tunable Mie resonances in silicon nanocone arrays

Wang, Z. Y.; Zhang, R. J.; Wang, S. Y.; Lu, M.; Chen, X.; Zheng, Y. X.; Chen, L. Y.; Ye, Z.; Wang, C. Z.; Ho, K. M.

doi:10.1038/srep07810

Title: Broadband optical absorption by tunable Mie resonances in silicon nanocone arrays

Journal Article · Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07810· OSTI ID:1193750

Wang, Z. Y. ^[1]; Zhang, R. J. ^[1]; Wang, S. Y. ^[2]; Lu, M. ^[1]; Chen, X. ^[3]; Zheng, Y. X. ^[1]; Chen, L. Y. ^[1]; Ye, Z. ^[4]; Wang, C. Z. ^[4]; Ho, K. M. ^[4]

Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China)
Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China); Key Lab. for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Shanghai (China); Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (China)
Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)

Nanostructure arrays such as nanowire, nanopillar, and nanocone arrays have been proposed to be promising antireflection structures for photovoltaic applications due to their great light trapping ability. In this paper, the optical properties of Si nanopillar and nanocone arrays in visible and infrared region were studied by both theoretical calculations and experiments. The results show that the Mie resonance can be continuously tuned across a wide range of wavelength by varying the diameter of the nanopillars. However, Si nanopillar array with uniform diameter exhibits only discrete resonance mode, thus can't achieve a high broadband absorption. On the other hand, the Mie resonance wavelength in a Si nanocone array can vary continuously as the diameters of the cross sections increase from the apex to the base. Therefore Si nanocone arrays can strongly interact with the incident light in the broadband spectrum and the absorbance by Si nanocone arrays is higher than 95% over the wavelength from 300 to 2000 nm. In addition to the Mie resonance, the broadband optical absorption of Si nanocone arrays is also affected by Wood-Rayleigh anomaly effect and metal impurities introduced in the fabrication process.

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Research Organization:: Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11358

OSTI ID:: 1193750

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 3; ISSN 2045-2322

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