Introduction to Light Trapping in Solar Cell and Photo-detector Devices

<ul> <li>Dedication</li> <li>Preface</li> <li>Chapter 1: A Brief Overview of Phenomena Involved in Light Trapping <ul> <li>Abstract </li> <li>1.1. Interference </li> <li>1.2. Scattering </li> <li>1.3. Reflection </li> <li>1.4. Diffraction </li> <li>1.5. Plasmonics </li> <li>1.6. Refraction </li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 2: Modes and Hybridization <ul> <li>Abstract </li> <li>2.1. Introductory comments </li> <li>2.2. Radiation modes </li> <li>2.3. Trapped traveling modes: guided modes </li> <li>2.4. Trapped traveling modes: Bloch modes </li> <li>2.5. Trapped localized modes: Mie modes and plasma modes </li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 3: Light-Trapping Structures <ul> <li>Abstract </li> <li>3.1. Introduction </li> <li>3.2. Planar structures with ARCs </li> <li>3.3. Planar structures with randomly textured surfaces </li> <li>3.4. Structures with nanoelement arrays </li> <li>3.5. Structures with plasmonic effects </li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 4: Summary <ul> <li>Abstract </li> <li>4.1. The current picture </li> <li>4.2. Some future directions? </li> <li>4.3. Overview </li></ul></li> <li>Appendix A: Yablonovitch Limit Derivation</li> <li>Appendix B: Fresnel Equations for the Situation of Section 2.2</li> <li>Appendix C: Index of Refraction, Permittivity, and Absorption Coefficient</li> <li>References</li></ul>