A newly developed metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating combines rectangular and cylindrical meta-atom geometries. (IMAGE)

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A newly developed metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating combines rectangular and cylindrical meta-atom geometries.

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A newly developed metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating combines rectangular and cylindrical meta-atom geometries. The metasurface achieves just 5 percent reflection, compared to ~50 percent reflection with an unstructured silicon solar cell. 

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Ovcharenko, Polevoy, and Yermakov, doi: 10.1117/1.APN.4.3.036009.

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