Improved performance of amorphous silicon solar cells via scattering from surface plasmon polaritons in nearby metallic nanoparticles

By D. Derkacs, S. H. Lim, P. Matheu, W. Mar, E. Yu. 2006

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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Surface plasmonic effects of metallic nanoparticles on the performance of polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells. (2011, background): “Typically, the light scattering efficiency is lower than the light absorption efficiency for Au NPs having particle sizes of less than 100 nm.(42,44) Because the average particle size of the Au NPs used in this study was only 45 nm, they were presumably unable to induce efficient light scattering.”
Surface Plasmon Enhancement of Optical Absorption in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells (2009, result): “Considering the nanoparticle surface coverage η, a similar conclusion can be made: for small values of η, the enhancement effect appears to be stronger compared with the large nanoparticle case [ 32 ].”
Plasmonics for photovoltaic applications (2010, methodology): “[11] used Au nanoparticles on thin-film amorphous silicon p–i–n solar cells to achieve an 8.”
Light trapping in ultrathin plasmonic solar cells. (2010, neutral): “…for large area metal nanostructure formation include island annealing, which produces irregular shapes and spacings [15,16], colloidal particles [19,20], which control the shape but not the spacing, and deposition through alumina templates, which can provide some control over the patterns…”
Plasmonic effect of gold nanoparticles in organic solar cells (2014, background): “is only a few micrometers (Derkacs et al., 2006; Pillai et al., 2007) or similarly to what was done to enhance the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (Lin et al.”
Design of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Efficient Subwavelength Light Trapping in Thin-Film Solar Cells (2011, background): “Due to metals’ ability to form high surface charges, specially designed metallic nanostructures provide strong subwavelength scattering of the light that can significantly improve the light trapping of thin-film cells through coupling with the semiconductor waveguide modes [2–5].”