A maskless plasma textu~ring technique using Reactive Ion Etching for silicon solar cells results in a very low reflectance of 5.4 % before and 3.9 % after SiN deposition. A detailed study of surface recombination and emitter properties was made, then solar cells were fabricated using the DOSS solar cell process. Different plasmadamage removal treatments are tested to optimize low lifetime sola...

We show that roughened surfaces of hyperbolic metamaterials scatter light preferentially inside the media, resulting in a very low reflectance. This phenomenon of fundamental importance, demonstrated experimentally in arrays of silver nanowires grown in alumina membranes, is consistent with a broad-band singularity in the density of photonic states. It paves the road to a variety of application...

This research focused on bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) measurements of Fagus sylvatica leaves, using a state of the art new multispectral Compact Laboratory SpectroGonioreflectometer (CLabSpeG). The BRDF was based on 4356 reflectance measurements covering the electromagnetic spectrum from 350 nm to 2500 nm. These measurements were acquired by independent positioning of ...