Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) has been used for decades—doped and as
intrinsic absorber layers—in thin-film silicon solar cells. Whereas their effiency was improved …

In this article, spectroscopic ellipsometry studies of plasmon resonances at metal–dielectric
interfaces of thin films are reviewed. We show how ellipsometry provides valuable non …

The carbon 1s photoelectron spectrum is the most widely fit and analyzed narrow scan in the
x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) literature. It is, therefore, critically important to adopt …

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) attract significant attention due to their remarkable
optical and excitonic properties. It was understood already in the 1960s and recently …

Shrinking conventional optical systems to chip-scale dimensions will benefit custom
applications in imaging, displaying, sensing, spectroscopy, and metrology. Towards this …

Optical coatings, which consist of one or more films of dielectric or metallic materials, are
widely used in applications ranging from mirrors to eyeglasses and photography lenses …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells have record-high open-circuit voltages but suffer from
reduced short-circuit currents due in large part to parasitic absorption in the amorphous …

Ellipsometry is a powerful method for determining both the optical constants and thickness of
thin films. For decades, solutions to ill-posed inverse ellipsometric problems require …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201306091 their low conductivity largely limits electronic
performance.[6] Transparent metal mesh structures [11, 16–19] and metal nanowire …

Dielectric metasurfaces, composed of planar arrays of subwavelength dielectric structures
that collectively mimic the operation of conventional bulk optical elements, have …