Metallic nanostructures for enhancement of absorption in thin-film solar cells

Author

Armin, Fahimeh ; Mirsalehi, Mir Mojtaba

Author_Institution

Commun. & Comput. Res. Center, Ferdowsi Univ. of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

fYear

2013

fDate

14-16 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, a novel structure is proposed to enhance the absorption of light in thin-film solar cells by surface plasmons excited on metallic nano-rods. The excitation of surface plasmons on these nano-rods that are implemented in amorphous hydrogenated silicon is realized by a two-dimensional array of metallic nanoparticles. This array, which consists of nonresonant plasmonic nanoparticles, can be mounted on the anti-reflection coating of the solar cells.

Keywords

amorphous semiconductors; antireflection coatings; elemental semiconductors; light absorption; nanoparticles; nanorods; plasmonics; semiconductor thin films; silicon; silver; solar cells; surface plasmons; Si:H-ITO-Ag; amorphous hydrogenated silicon; anti-reflection coating; light absorption; metallic nano-rods; metallic nanoparticles; nonresonant plasmonic nanoparticles; surface plasmons; thin-film solar cells; two-dimensional array; Absorption; Arrays; Metals; Nanoparticles; Optical surface waves; Photovoltaic cells; Plasmons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2013 21st Iranian Conference on

Conference_Location

Mashhad

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IranianCEE.2013.6599796

Filename

6599796