Optimization of ultrathin polarization insensitive metamaterial absorbers using trust region algorithm based on Co-kriging model

AS Etman, MFO Hameed, SSA Obayya, AE Hammad - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, a trust region optimization algorithm integrated with a co-kriging surrogate-
model is newly formulated to optimize compact ultrathin wideband metamaterial absorbers …

Absorption improvement of organic solar cells using grating structures in active layer and antireflection coating layer

M Shahraki, H Malekpoor - Journal of Nanophotonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The effects of grating structure on the performance of PTB7: PC70BM organic solar cells
(OSCs) are considered. First, an OSC with a flat antireflection coating (ARC) is studied, and …

Absorption improvement of a-Si/c-Si rectangular nanowire arrays in ultrathin solar cells

SL Mortazavifar, MR Salehi… - Journal of Photonics …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical absorption of rectangular a-Si/c-Si solar cells is investigated. Each nanowire consists
of a thin layer of a-Si, which surrounded by c-Si layers. The proposed structure has a very …

All-dielectric planar solar cells with multilayer ARC and non-periodic DBR nanolayers based on transmission line equivalent circuit

MR Salehi, M Shahraki, E Abiri - Current Applied Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, an analytical approach based on transmission line equivalent circuit (TLEC) is
used to model planar solar cells. The proposed method has been applied to the all-dielectric …

Omnidirectional broadband absorption enhancement in laterally assembled quadrangle silicon nanowire solar cells

M Shahraki, MR Salehi, E Abiri - Journal of Modern Optics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, effects of geometry and spatial placement of quadrangle silicon nanowires
(NWs) on the performance of laterally assembled NW solar cells are investigated. Two …

Light absorption enhancement of silicon solar cell based on horizontal nanowire arrays

SF Sajadian, MR Salehi, SL Mortazavifar… - Optical …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The effects of geometry and horizontal positioning of ultrathin triangular silicon nanowires
(SiNWs) on the function of solar cells (SCs) have been investigated. Two differentiated …

Circuit modeling of waveguide grating nanostructures in ultrathin solar cells

MR Salehi, M Shahraki - IEEE transactions on nanotechnology, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a circuit modeling is used to investigate the effects of waveguide grating
nanostructures on the performance of ultrathin solar cells. The proposed method is based on …

Wideband absorption enhancement in laterally oriented core-shell c-Si/a-Si hexagonal nanowire arrays

M Shahraki, M Ghadrdan - International Journal of Optics and Photonics, 2021 - ijop.ir
In this paper, the optical properties of laterally oriented core-shell nanowire silicon solar
cells (NWSCs) are optimized. The optimum structure consists of an array with non-uniform …

Optimized Light Trapping in Semi-Periodic Arrays of Core-Shell c-Si/a-Si Nanowire Solar Cells.

M Shahraki, MR Salehi, E Abiri - International Journal of …, 2017 - search.ebscohost.com
In this paper, effects of spatial placement of square nanowires (NWs) on the performance of
NW solar cells are investigated. These solar cells consist of the laterally assembled core …