Plasmonics and nanophotonics for photovoltaics

Abstract

Abstract

On quantum approach to modeling of plasmon photovoltaic effect

“…Recently, an efficiency increase up to several percent has been observed in multi-crystalline silicon cells covered with not densely distributed gold or silver nanoparticles with radius of several tens of nanometers [9]. It must be emphasized that such an increase is very promising in view of other photovoltaic technology, like thin film solar cells, organic plastic cells or newly developed perovskite cells, where an increase even by a few percent would be important to obtain industrially competitive cell designs [4,7,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

Effect of embedded nanoparticle surface chemistry on plasmonic organic photovoltaic devices

“…In recent years, OPV devices enhanced by incorporated metallic NP have become one of the most intensively studied topic in OPV research [1,2]. The basic principle behind NP-incorporated OPV devices is the application of the LSPR phenomenon in metallic NP to improve the light trapping and absorption of small molecule and polymer OPV devices which typically have very thin (*100 nm) absorber layers [3].…”

“…For incorporation into the BHJ layer, both small molecule/fullerene and conjugated polymer/fullerene donor acceptor pairs have been studied. Several comprehensive reviews have already been published on these plasmonic OPVs [2,9,16,17]. In general, these prior reviews only discussed the effect of metallic NPs on the PCE of OPV devices when they were added to the device layers.…”

“…By systematically surveying this subset of the recent plasmonic OPV literature, we can recognize the different effects on device performance when NP of the same noble metal but different surface chemistry is introduced into the absorber layer. For the purpose of this article, metallic NPs are categorized into: (1) NPs with an organic ligand shell, (2) bare NPs and (3) core-shell NPs with an insulating shell. The comparison will be made according to the device photovoltaic parameters, namely the short circuit current density J sc , open circuit voltage V oc , fill factor, FF and PCE.…”

Combined plasmonic and dielectric rear reflectors for enhanced photocurrent in solar cells

“…These can be used as subwavelength scattering elements to couple a large fraction of incident light into trapped modes within a nearby semiconductor layer. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of metallic nanoparticles depends on the size, shape, and local dielectric environment of the particles. Recently, it has been shown that locating the nanoparticles on the rear of a solar cell is particularly effective in coupling long wavelength light into the cell.…”