Plasmonic nanoparticle enhanced light absorption in GaAs solar cells

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Plasmonics for photovoltaic applications (2010, methodology): “Plasmonics has also been used to enhance light absorption in thin-film GaAs solar cells resulting in an 8% increase in the short-circuit current density of the cell [18].”
Nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide: Advances in surface engineering and emerging applications (2013, methodology): “[373] used a different configuration of solar cells where optically thin GaAs photovoltaic layers decorated with Ag nanoparticles were deposited on AAO.”
Localized surface plasmon resonance enhanced organic solar cell with gold nanospheres (2011, background): “There have been several studies about applying LSPR effect of NPs or nanostructures to improve the performance of inorganic [8,9] and organic solar cells [10–13].”
Multi‐dimensional modeling of solar cells with electromagnetic and carrier transport calculations (2013, background): “These results closely reflect the observations made in previous experiments [17,46].”