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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 2013 Workshop on
Conference_Location :
New Delhi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4864-2
DOI :
10.1109/WRAP.2013.6917683
