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Harnessing plasmonics for solar cells

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Plasmons are free-electron oscillations in a conductor that allow light to be manipulated at the nanoscale. The ability of plasmons to guide and confine light on subwavelength scales is opening up new design possibilities for solar cells.

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Figure 1: Plasmonic metal nanoparticles as scatterers.
Figure 2: Trapping light using evanescent waves.
Figure 3: Plasmonic solar cell approaches.

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  1. Martin A. Green and Supriya Pillai are at the ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia,

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