Plasmonic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Core−Shell Metal−Insulator Nanoparticles

Brown, Michael D.; Suteewong, Teeraporn; Kumar, Ravi; D’Innocenzo, Valerio; Petrozza, Annamaria; Lee, Michael M.; Wiesner, Ulrich; Snaith, Henry J.

doi:10.1021/nl1031106

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“…The metal nanoparticles are deposited or even embedded in the semiconductor, and metal nanoparticles on the regulation of light characteristics are used to increase the absorption of incident light by increasing the local electric field [200][201][202]. The incident light is coupled with the nanoparticles in the form of waveguides between the nanoparticles and the medium until the light is completely absorbed [203][204][205].…”

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confidence: 99%

Exciton-plasmon coupling interactions: from principle to applications

et al. 2017

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Abstract:The interaction of exciton-plasmon coupling and the conversion of exciton-plasmon-photon have been widely investigated experimentally and theoretically. In this review, we introduce the exciton-plasmon interaction from basic principle to applications. There are two kinds of exciton-plasmon coupling, which demonstrate different optical properties. The strong exciton-plasmon coupling results in two new mixed states of light and matter separated energetically by a Rabi splitting that exhibits a characteristic anticrossing behavior of the exciton-LSP energy tuning. Compared to strong coupling, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering, surface plasmon (SP)-enhanced absorption, enhanced fluorescence, or fluorescence quenching, there is no perturbation between wave functions; the interaction here is called the weak coupling. SP resonance (SPR) arises from the collective oscillation induced by the electromagnetic field of light and can be used for investigating the interaction between light and matter beyond the diffraction limit. The study on the interaction between SPR and exaction has drawn wide attention since its discovery not only due to its contribution in deepening and broadening the understanding of SPR but also its contribution to its application in light-emitting diodes, solar cells, low threshold laser, biomedical detection, quantum information processing, and so on.

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Section: Solar Cellsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exciton-plasmon coupling interactions: from principle to applications

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“…It has been reported by different groups that plain metal particles on the front contact 38 or inside the active layer 39 of photovoltaic cells can degrade their efficiency. This is an effect which is debated in the plasmonic solar cells community.…”

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Organic solar cells with plasmonic layers formed by laser nanofabrication

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Henley

Han

et al. 2013

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

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A method for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles coatings for plasmonic solar cells which can meet large scale industrial demands is demonstrated. A UV pulsed laser is utilized to fabricate Au and Ag nanoparticles on the surface of polymer materials which forms the substrates for plasmonic organic photovoltaic devices. Control of the particles' size and density is demonstrated. The optical and electrical effects of these embedded particles on the power

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“…As shown in the experiments, the power conversion efficiencies were only 1.95 % [7] and 5.77 % [11] with the plasmonic effect considered. We show in next section that the parasitic absorption of small metal nanoparticles is the main reason, and the power conversion efficiency enhanced by metallic nanoparticles is much less than their enhanced efficiency of light collection because the metallic nanoparticles absorb one part of the incident light during surface plasmon resonance (SPR).…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Brown et al [7] reported that adding Au-Si nanoparticles with the shell-core structure with size of 20 nm into the typical solid electrolyte DSSC led to an improvement of the conversion efficiency; Hagglund et al [8] studied the influence of Au nanoplate arrays on the photoelectric conduction of the dye-sensitized TiO2 thin-film.…”

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confidence: 99%