• DocumentCode
    693594
  • Title

    Enhanced performance of silicon wafer solar cells by aluminium nanoparticles embedded in antireflection coating

  • Author

    Singh, Y. Premkumar ; Kapoor, Ajay ; Jain, Abhishek

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Sci., Univ. of Delhi, New Delhi, India
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    17-18 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Light coupling into silicon wafer solar cells can be enhanced significantly using low cost aluminium nanoparticles embedded in antireflection coating, which is due to the increased forward scattering upon surface plasmon excitation.
  • Keywords
    aluminium; antireflection coatings; nanoparticles; solar cells; surface plasmons; aluminium nanoparticles; antireflection coating; forward scattering; silicon wafer solar cells; surface plasmon excitation; Absorption; Coatings; Resonant frequency; Scattering; Silicon; absorption; nanoparticles; scattering; surface plasmons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 2013 Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    New Delhi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-4864-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WRAP.2013.6917683
  • Filename
    6917683