Absorption control in pseudodisordered photonic-crystal thin film

Romain Peretti (1) , Guillaume Gomard (1, 2) , Loïc Lalouat (1) , Christian Seassal (1) , Emmanuel Drouard (1)

1 INL - Photonique - INL - Nanophotonique
2 INL - PV - INL - Photovoltaïque

The positive effects of various perturbations introduced in a bidimensional photonic-crystal patterned membrane on its integrated absorption are investigated numerically and theoretically. Two phenomena responsible for the enhanced absorption observed are identified: an increase of the spectral density of modes, obtained thanks to folding mechanisms in the reciprocal lattice, and a better coupling of the modes with the incident light. By introducing a proper pseudodisordered pattern, we show that those two effects can be exploited so as to overcome the integrated absorption obtained for an optimized and single pattern unit cell photonic crystal.

Mots clés: solar cell; reciprocal space; photovoltaic

Mots clés: photonic crystal; disorder; absorption enhancement; periodicitty

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Romain Peretti, Guillaume Gomard, Loïc Lalouat, Christian Seassal, Emmanuel Drouard. Absorption control in pseudodisordered photonic-crystal thin film. Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015], 2013, 88 (5), pp.053835. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevA.88.053835⟩. ⟨hal-00908405⟩