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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2011
I-kang Ding, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jia Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Yi Cui, Stanford, CA (US);
Michael David Mcgehee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
I-Kang Ding, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jia Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Yi Cui, Stanford, CA (US);
Michael David McGehee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for forming a solar cell having a plasmonic back reflector is disclosed. The method includes the formation of a nanoimprinted surface on which a metal electrode is conformally disposed. The surface structure of the nanoimprinted surface gives rise to a two-dimensional pattern of nanometer-scale features in the metal electrode enabling these features to collectively form the plasmonic back reflector.