Front side plasmonic effect on thin silicon epitaxial solar cells

Oscillatory Optical Response of an Amorphous Two-Dimensional Array of Gold Nanoparticles

“…This particular type of nanoparticle arrangement on a surface exhibits short range distance order while at long distances it is completely random. Furthermore, it can be quite easily fabricated on large areas (wafer scale), using bottom-up self-assembly based nanofabrication techniques like hole-mask colloidal lithography [9], making it a first choice for many large-scale devices and applications [2,[10][11][12][13]. In contrast to earlier observations made on amorphous arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles for a limited particle density range [14], where the optical properties were attributed to a single particle optical response, our findings indicate that amorphous arrays exhibit distinct properties of interacting particles even if their density is low.…”

Photonic nanostructures for advanced light trapping in thin crystalline silicon solar cells

“…The coexistence of repulsive inter‐particle interactions and attractive bead‐substrate interactions leads to a short‐range ordering of the particles into an amorphous array. The combination of the sacrificial layer with a thin‐film mask with nanoholes, also named hole‐mask, allows fabricating a wide variety of nanostructures that are applied in a broad range of contexts, from photovoltaics and optical nanoantennas to spintronics .…”

Effect of urchin-like gold nanoparticles in organic thin-film solar cells

“…4,5 An important challenge in the advancement of OSCs is enhancing light absorption in organic layers while maintaining their thickness. [13][14][15][16] Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) can be easily dispersed in water and are stable in a redoxoxidation/reduction environment. [13][14][15][16] Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) can be easily dispersed in water and are stable in a redoxoxidation/reduction environment.…”