Thin-film silicon solar cells with integrated silver nanoparticles

Moulin, Etienne; Sukmanowski, J.; Schulte, M.; Gordijn, A.; Royer, F.; Stiebig, Helmut

doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2007.12.018

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“…Ag, Pt, Au and Pd), silver (Ag) is the metal of abundance for prospective applications in the field of biological systems, living organisms and medicine. Due to their elite properties, AgNPs appear to have quite a lot of applications, such as catalysts in chemical reactions [14,15] , electrical batteries and in spectrally discriminative coatings for absorption of solar energy [16,17] as optical elements, pharmaceutics and in chemical sensing and biosensing [18][19][20] .…”

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Green Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles from Crocus Mathewii; A Disremembered Turkish Flowering Plant

Yildiztekin¹,

Nadeem²,

Yildiztekin³

et al. 2017

pharmaceutical-sciences

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Mahmut, et al.: Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles from Crocus mathewiiThis study reports the first ever chemical study on Crocus mathewii, a Turkish endemic and forgotten flowering plant. Silver nanoparticles were green synthesized from one mmol×l -1 silver nitrate extract of C. mathewii. The water-suspended silver nanoparticles showed a peak at 423 nm in UV/Vis spectrophotometer that suggested smaller particle size due to its less surface plasmon resonance. Transmission electron microscopy analysis also proved excellent polydispersity of quasi-spherical particle size distribution with average particles of 7.5 nm (2.5-25 nm). The presence of silver in the nanoparticles was analyzed by X-ray diffraction, while Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis showed the presence of various -OH and -NH containing organics. The results proved that the crude extract of C. mathewii can be used for green synthesis of silver nanoparticles in future for medicinal uses.

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Green Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles from Crocus Mathewii; A Disremembered Turkish Flowering Plant

Yildiztekin¹,

Nadeem²,

Yildiztekin³

et al. 2017

pharmaceutical-sciences

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“…The scattering properties of large NPs (with diameter Ø > 40 nm) [9][10][11] have often been used to increase the optical path length within solar cells and consequently enhance the short-circuit photocurrent density. [12][13][14][15][16][17] Plasmonic resonances in smaller metal NPs (Ø < 40 nm) lead to a particularly strong enhancement of the electric field intensity in the NPs and in their direct vicinity. The increased light absorption induced by this enhanced local electric field has also been shown to play a beneficial role in photoactive device applications.…”

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Plasmon-induced photoexcitation of “hot” electrons and “hot” holes in amorphous silicon photosensitive devices containing silver nanoparticles

Moulin

Paetzold

Pieters

et al. 2013

Journal of Applied Physics

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Plasmon-induced photoexcitation of "hot" electrons and "hot" holes in amorphous silicon photosensitive devices containing silver nanoparticles We report on a plasmon-induced photocurrent in photosensitive devices based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) containing silver nanoparticles (NPs). The photocurrent is measured in a spectral region corresponding to optical transitions below the band gap of a-Si:H. Photoexcitation of "hot" electrons in the NPs or in defect states present in the vicinity of the NPs, resulting from plasmon decay in the NPs, is often cited as being responsible for this effect. In this study, we demonstrate that plasmon induced photogeneration of "hot" holes is also able to contribute to a photocurrent. A bifacial symmetrical transparent device was prepared in order to compare the internal quantum efficiency of both processes, the first based on the photogeneration of "hot" electrons and the second based on the photogeneration of "hot" holes.

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“…The LSPR condition depends on the on the metal/interface properties, on the particle size and shape, and finally on the average distance in the particle distribution [4,5]. Light trapping for improving solar cell efficiency based on plasmonic effects is reported in literature mainly for silver nanoparticles embedded in silicon solar cells [6,7] and in thin film amorphous silicon solar cells [8,9]. Reports on Aluminium nanoparticles embedded in a-Si:H solar cells have also been recently published [10,11,12].…”

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Numerical simulation of plasmonic effects in amorphous silicon induced by embedded aluminium nanoparticles

Fantoni

Leão

Louro³

et al. 2015

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Thin-film silicon solar cells with integrated silver nanoparticles

Cited by 86 publications

References 13 publications

Green Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles from Crocus Mathewii; A Disremembered Turkish Flowering Plant

Green Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles from Crocus Mathewii; A Disremembered Turkish Flowering Plant

Plasmon-induced photoexcitation of “hot” electrons and “hot” holes in amorphous silicon photosensitive devices containing silver nanoparticles

Numerical simulation of plasmonic effects in amorphous silicon induced by embedded aluminium nanoparticles

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