Near-perfect antireflection coatingfor silicon solar energy utilization
Weijian Yang
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Motivation AR coating can improve solar collection efficiency.
Solar radiation Broadband spectrum. Incident angle changes within a day.
An idea AR coating should maintain a low reflectance for a broadband spectrum and all angles of incidence.
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AR coating
Fresnel reflection Traditional quarter-wave AR coating suffers from a small
range of optical spectrum and incident angle. Grade index nanorod thin film structure.
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Graded Index
Reflectance of the AR coating depends on smoothness of the index profile.
Minimize the differential reflectance at each interface of the multilayer structure.
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Graded index
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Moth’s eye
Graded effective medium can reduce index mismatch at the interface and eliminate reflection.
Change air/material ratio gradually.
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Oblique-angle deposition
A random growth fluctuation in the substrate produces a shadow region that the subsequent incident vapor flux cannot reach.
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Graded index AR coating
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Comparison
Structure Ave. Reflection
Ave. Transmission
Si 32.6% 67.4%
Single layer quarter wavelength
18.8% 81.2%
Graded index 3.79% 96.12
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References M. Kuo, et.al., Opt. Lett., 33, 2527, 2008. J. Xi, et.al., Nature Photonics, 1, 176, 2007. J. Xi, et.al., Opt. Lett., 5, 601, 2006. S. Kennedy, et.al., Appl. Opt., 42, 4573, 2003.
www.physorg.com.
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