A simple optical model for photocurrent enhancement by plasmonic metal nanoparticles atop solar cells has been developed. Our model deals with the absorption, reflection, and scattering of incident sunlight as well as radiation efficiencies on metallic nanoparticles. Our calculation results satisfactorily reproduce a series of experimental spectral data for optically thin GaAs solar cells with ...

Pd capped pure Mg thin film (50 nm thick) was prepared by magnetron sputtering and its hydrogenation at room temperature has been investigated. After exposure to 4% hydrogen gas diluted by argon, the Pd/Mg thin films show drastic optical changes from the metallic state to the transparent state within five seconds by hydrogenation. Transmission electron microscope observation reveals that this s...

Over the last few years, micro- and nanophotonics have roused a strong interest in the scientific community for their promising impact on the development of novel kinds of solar cells. Certain thin- and ultrathin-film solar cells are made of innovative, often cheap, materials which suffer from a low energy conversion efficiency. Light-trapping mechanisms based on nanophotonics principles are pa...

Ž . The low-field magneto-transport property of polycrystalline La Sr MnO LSMO thin films deposited on quartz 0.5 0.5 3 wafers by pulsed laser ablation at various temperatures is investigated. The film is of mixed amorphous and polycrystalline microstructure, depending on the depositing temperature. The low-field magneto-transport property of the thin films can be explained in terms of the two-...

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Pulsed laser deposition of La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 (LSMO) thin films on quartz wafers at different deposition temperatures has been carried out. The microstructural, electrical and low-field magnetotransport properties of these films are evaluated as functions of the deposition temperature. The film crystallinity depends substantially on the deposition temperature. Significantly enhanced low-field magne...

A technique of measuring contact resistance between an individual nanotube and a deposited metallic film is described. Using laser ablation to sequentially shorten the contact length between a nanotube and the evaporated metallic film, the linear resistivity of the nanotube as well as the specific contact resistivity between the nanotube and metallic film can be determined. This technique can b...

copper thin films with nano-scale structure have numerous applications in modern technology.  in this work, cu thin films with different thicknesses from 50–220 nm have been deposited on glass substrate by dc magnetron sputtering technique at room temperature in pure ar gas. the sputtering time was considered in 4, 8, 12 and 16 min, respectively. the thickness effect on the structural, morpholo...