Light Trapping in Plasmonic Solar Cells

Ferry, Vivian E.

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“…Surface texturing with ordered or disordered tiling of subwavelength features has been shown to enhance the broadband absorption of the solar radiation due to light trapping (e.g., vertically-aligned nanopillars (NPs), nanoholes (NHs), rods, nanocones (NCs), nanospheres, etc.) [ 2 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ]. Note that in the current context, NPs refer to diameters of several hundred nanometers.…”

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Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays

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Silicon light funnels are three-dimensional subwavelength structures in the shape of inverted cones with respect to the incoming illumination. Light funnel (LF) arrays can serve as efficient absorbing layers on account of their light trapping capabilities, which are associated with the presence of high-density complex Mie modes. Specifically, light funnel arrays exhibit broadband absorption enhancement of the solar spectrum. In the current study, we numerically explore the optical coupling between surface light funnel arrays and the underlying substrates. We show that the absorption in the LF array-substrate complex is higher than the absorption in LF arrays of the same height (~10% increase). This, we suggest, implies that a LF array serves as an efficient surface element that imparts additional momentum components to the impinging illumination, and hence optically excites the substrate by near-field light concentration, excitation of traveling guided modes in the substrate, and mode hybridization.

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Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays

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“…Surface texturing with ordered or disordered tiling of subwavelength features has been shown to enhance the broadband absorption of the solar radiation due to light trapping (e.g., vertically-aligned NPs, nanoholes (NHs), rods, nanocones (NCs), nanospheres, etc.) 2,3,5,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] . Note that in the current context NPs refer to diameters of several hundred nanometers.…”

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Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays

Prajapati¹,

Nissay²,

Gabay³

et al. 2018

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Silicon light funnels are three-dimensional subwavelength structures in the shape of inverted cones with respect to the incoming illumination. Light funnel arrays can serve as an efficient absorbing layers on account of their light trapping capabilities associated with the presence of high density complex Mie modes. Specifically, light funnel arrays exhibit broadband absorption enhancement of the of the solar spectrum. In the current study, we numerically explore the optical coupling between surface light funnel arrays and underlying substrates. We show that the absorption in LF array-substrate complex is higher than the absorption in LF arrays of the same height (~10% increase). This, we suggest, imply that a LF array serves as an efficient surface element that imparts additional momentum components to the impinging illumination, and hence optically excites the substrate by near-field light concentration, excitation of traveling guided modes in the substrate and mode hybridization.

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Role of Band-Structure Approach in Biohybrid Photovoltaics—A Path Beyond Bioelectrochemistry

Ravi

Tan

2020

Solar Energy Harvesting With Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes

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Light Trapping in Plasmonic Solar Cells

Cited by 8 publications

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Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays

Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays

Light Trapping with Silicon Light Funnel Arrays

Role of Band-Structure Approach in Biohybrid Photovoltaics—A Path Beyond Bioelectrochemistry

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