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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2019.035</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2019.035</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>Spectral characteristics of nanometric absorber: a simple strategy to develop silicon nanostructures for efficient solar energy harvesting</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Hossain</surname><given-names>Mohammad Kamal</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
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        <email>kamalhossain@kfupm.edu.sa</email>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Salhi</surname><given-names>Billel</given-names></name>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Mukhaimer</surname><given-names>Ayman Wajeh</given-names></name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy (CoRERE), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Researcher at K.A.CARE Energy Research &amp; Innovation Center at Dhahran, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia</aff>
      <aff id="aff3">School of Engineering, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia</aff>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>10</day><month>02</month><year>2020</year></pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-0-85358-331-8</isbn>
      <fpage>333</fpage>
      <lpage>338</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2019.035"/>
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        <date date-type="received"><string-date>10 February 2020</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2019 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
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      <abstract><p>Solar cells utilise a small portion of the solar spectrum depending on the technology used while solar radiation, being full of UV-VIS-IR wavelengths, does not leave absorbing and other layers unaffected. Only the photon energy that matches the absorbing layer contributes to effective power generation of solar cells. Higher and lower energy wavelengths induce thermalisation and absorption losses, which in turn introduce several consequences including heating and degradation in the cell level. Therefore, wavelength-sensitive engineered absorbing layers such as nanometric absorber-based solar cells hold huge potential. In this work, we have investigated and simulated four deterministic characteristics, viz. absorption depth profile; electromagnetic field; Poynting vector and exciton generation rate distribution at different incidents for silicon nanowire (Si-NW) systems. Flat silicon and Si-NW were considered as examples along with a comparative outlook. Such predictive studies facilitate the choice of technology and how to improve the cell efficiency using light-trapping techniques. Preliminary work has shown a simple strategy to achieve nanometric absorption using recent inventions granted to the Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy (CoRERE) at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). As-grown Si-NWs with coverage, ca. 6.5×10⁸/cm² were further characterised through scanning electron microscope. Such correlated demonstration as investigated in this work will open new avenues and possibilities to improve current nanowires-based optoelectronic devices, particularly thin film solar cells.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>optical characteristics</kwd>
        <kwd>silicon nanowire</kwd>
        <kwd>FDTD simulation</kwd>
        <kwd>optical confinement</kwd>
        <kwd>solar energy harvesting</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>20 to 22 August 2019</conf-date>
        <conf-name>18th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2019</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>18</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia</conf-loc>
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