Effect of aperiodicity on the broadband reflection of silicon nanorod structures for photovoltaics

We study the effect of aperiodicity on silicon nanorod antireflection structures. Numerical results reveal that randomness is beneficial for small nanorod sizes. A guided random walk algorithm is used to obtain optimized aperiodic structures.

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