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Figure 1: Absorption enhancement in nanotextured a-Si:H absorbers. UV–vis absorption measurements (Fig. 1c) for the three different samples show enhanced absorption for nanotextured interfaces (red, ...

Black carbon (BC) is functionally defined as the absorbing component of atmospheric total carbonaceous aerosols (TC) and is typically dominated by soot-like elemental carbon (EC). However, organic ...

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Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. We report on time-dependent density functional theory calculations of the excited ...

Absorption by black carbon strongly affects regional and global climate. Yet, large discrepancies between standard model predictions and regionally specific observations—often with observed absorption ...