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Silica aerogel as rear reflector in silicon heterojunction solar cells for improved infrared response

Silicon (Si), with its indirect bandgap, is a non-ideal absorber. Thus, various strategies to boost silicon solar cells' efficiency, including advanced texturing, multilayer anti-reflecting coating, and rear reflectors are utilized. Dielectrics, deposited ...

ELSEVIER2023

High-resolution tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing

Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie

Tomographic additive manufacturing produces complex parts with a wide range of printable materials but remains limited in terms of resolution. Here, the authors tune the etendue of the light source and accurately control the photopolymerization kinetics us ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Specification of aspherical surfaces used as refractive elements in micro-optical systems

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin

The optical performance of refractive plano-convex microlenses is mainly related to the quality of their (a)spherical surface. An efficient tolerancing of this surface is a key step towards the manufacturing of high quality microlenses. However, we demonst ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

A new method to retrieve the real part of the equivalent refractive index of atmospheric aerosols

Athanasios Nenes

In the context of the international experimental campaign Hygroscopic Aerosols to Cloud Droplets (HygrA-CD, 15 May to 22 June 2014), dry aerosol size distributions were measured at Demokritos station (DEM) using a Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS) in ...

Elsevier Ltd2018

The multi-spectral imaging diagnostic

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Yanis Andrebe, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing

The Multi-Spectral Imaging system is a new diagnostic that captures simultaneous spectrally filtered images from a common line of sight while maintaining a large etendue and high throughput. Imaging several atomic line intensities simultaneously may enable ...

2018

High-Q surface modes in photonic crystal/iron garnet film heterostructures for sensor applications

Giovanni Dietler, Pavel Kapralov

A novel type of a plasmonic sensor based on a magnetophotonic plasmonic heterostructure with an ultrahigh-Q resonance is considered. A magnetoplasmonic resonance with an angular width of 0.06A degrees, which corresponds to a Q factor of 700 and is a record ...

Springer Verlag2017

Design of a light confining concentrator for a solar photochemical reactor and upper bound to the method

Marilyne Andersen, Boris Clément Karamata

Optical concentration obtained by light confinement bears unique features that can increase the efficiency of a photochemical reactor. A suitable implementation of this method for a solar reactor is a series of parallel tubular receivers sealed in a slab-s ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Integrated angular tracking and plasmonic membrane surfaces for a point of a care refractive index sensor

Hatice Altug, Harry Heinzelmann, Cenk Ibrahim Özdemir, Marie-Claude Bay

We present an optical system which integrates a plasmonic sensing surface and an angular tracking system to enable a compact refractive index measurement. A refractive index change at the surface of the sensing membrane causes a change in the angle at whic ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Excitation of resonant plasmonic cavities by integrated waveguides for sensing applications

Gaël David Osowiecki

Optical sensors represent a large growing market which is nowadays focusing onto advancement in mobile technology. Innovations in the field of optical sensors are mostly driven by the technological advancements in the domain of micro & nanofabrication. One ...

EPFL2016

Demonstration of a 5x5 cm(2) self-tracking solar concentrator

Eric Tremblay, Volker Günter Zagolla

Solar concentration is using optics in order to minimize the amount of expensive photovoltaic cell material needed. For concentration factors higher than approximately 4, tracking the sun's position is needed to keep the focal spot on the solar cell. Based ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

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