327 research outputs found
Enhancement of perovskite solar cells by plasmonic nanoparticles
Synthetic perovskites with photovoltaic properties open a new era in solar
photovoltaics. Due to high optical absorption perovskite-based thin-film solar
cells are usually considered as fully absorbing solar radiation on condition of
ideal blooming. However, is it really so? The analysis of the literature data
has shown that the absorbance of all photovoltaic pervoskites has the spectral
hole at infrared frequencies where the solar radiation spectrum has a small
local peak. This absorption dip results in the decrease of the optical
efficiency of thin-film pervoskite solar cells by nearly 3% and close the ways
of utilise them at this range for any other applications. In our work we show
that to cure this shortage is possible complementing the basic structure by an
inexpensive plasmonic array.Comment: 6 pages 6 picture
Microwave Radiation Force on a Parallel-Plate Resonator
A simulation method is proposed and tested in order to determine the radiation force on metal targets whose size is comparable to wavelength. the method is based on the method of moments solution of the electric-field integral equation, accurate calculation of the near field, and removal of the self-interaction terms responsible for the pinch effect. the method is used to determine the local force distribution for a parallel-plate metal resonator. It is observed that, at the resonance, the individual metal plates may experience large force densities, despite the fact that the net radiation force on the resonator still remains very small. A potential use of this observation is discussed, which is directed toward possible excitation of acoustic vibrations
Towards all-dielectric metamaterials and nanophotonics
We review a new, rapidly developing field of all-dielectric nanophotonics
which allows to control both magnetic and electric response of structured
matter by engineering the Mie resonances in high-index dielectric
nanoparticles. We discuss optical properties of such dielectric nanoparticles,
methods of their fabrication, and also recent advances in all-dielectric
metadevices including couple-resonator dielectric waveguides, nanoantennas, and
metasurfaces
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