Efficient Broadband Light Absorption in a Bioinspired Silicon Photonic Structure
Toiyob Hossain,
Abdul Ahad Mamun,
Fariba Islam
et al.
Abstract:Inspired by the near-perfect light-harvesting mechanism
in the
phycobilisome complex of cyanobacterial cells, a hemicylindrical antenna-shaped
photonic structure is proposed and analyzed in the present work for
photovoltaic, photonic, and photochemistry applications. Results from
finite difference time domain method-based analysis reveal that a
cSi-based photonic structure with identical dimensions of the phycobilisome
has a very low absorption efficiency in the peak solar wavelength
regime. However, by scalin… Show more
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