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Advanced Photonics Nexus
Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036009 (2025)

Forward and inverse design of single-layer metasurface-based broadband antireflective coating for silicon solar cells

Anton Ovcharenko^1,*, Sergey Polevoy², and Oleh Yermakov^1,3,*

Author Affiliations

¹V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Department of Computational Physics, Kharkiv, Ukraine

²O. Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of NAS of Ukraine, Radiospectroscopy Department, Kharkiv, Ukraine

³Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Department of Fiber Photonics, Jena, Germany

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