Ultraviolet Plasmonic Aluminium Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Light Incoupling on Silicon Solar Cells

Zhang, Yinan; Cai, Boyuan; Jia, Baohua

doi:10.3390/nano6060095

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“…Reports on aluminum nanoparticles embedded in a‐Si:H solar cells have also been recently published . Gold NPs were already studied and demonstrated to be effective in trapping the near bandgap energy due to higher radiative efficiency .…”

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A Simulation Study of Surface Plasmons in Metallic Nanoparticles: Dependence on the Properties of an Embedding a‐Si:H Matrix

Fantoni

Fernandes

Vygranenko

et al. 2017

Physica Status Solidi (a)

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The development and realization of a plasmonic structure based on the LSP interaction of metal nanoparticles with an embedding matrix of amorphous silicon is proposed. As a planned application, this structure will need to be usable as the basis for a sensor device applied in biomedical applications, after proper functionalization with selective antibodies. The final sensor structure needs to be low-cost, compact, and disposable. The study reported in this paper aims to analyze varied materials for nanoparticles embedded in an amorphous silico matrix. Metals of interest for nanoparticles composition are aluminum and gold. As a comparison term, a non-plasmonic material like alumina, resulting from oxidation of Al nanoparticles, is also considered. As a preliminary approach to this device, we study in this work the optical properties of spherical metal nanoparticles embedded in an amorphous silicon matrix, as a function of size and metal type. Following an analysis based on the exact solution of the Mie theory, experimental measurements realized with arrays of metal nanoparticles are compared with the simulations.

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A Simulation Study of Surface Plasmons in Metallic Nanoparticles: Dependence on the Properties of an Embedding a‐Si:H Matrix

Fantoni

Fernandes

Vygranenko

et al. 2017

Physica Status Solidi (a)

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“…Nano-modifications of dye-solar-cells are also investigated [50], by carefully tuning the amount of organic fluorophore in the hybrid coating material, a maximum increase in power conversion efficiency exceeding 4% is achieved in flexible organic cell incorporating the new coating layer [51]. Various metals for nano-components have been also tested including e.g., aluminium and titanium besides gold and silver [52,53], as well as multi-shape particles (Ag) [54].…”

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On Modeling of Plasmon-Induced Enhancement of the Efficiency of Solar Cells Modified by Metallic Nano-Particles

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We demonstrate that the direct application of numerical packets like Comsol to plasmonic effect in solar cells metallically modified in nano-scale may be strongly inaccurate if quantum corrections are neglected. The near-field coupling of surface plasmons in metallic nanoparticles deposited on the top of a solar cell with band electrons in a semiconductor substrate strongly enhances the damping of plasmons in metallic components, which is not accounted for in standard numerical packets using the Drude type dielectric function for metal (taken from measurements in bulk or in thin layers) as the prerequisite for the numerical e-m field calculus. Inclusion of the proper corrections to plasmon damping causes additional enhancement of the plasmon-induced photo-effect efficiency growth of a metalized photo-diode by ten percent, at least, in comparison to only effect induced by the electric field concentration near metallic nanoparticles. This happens to be consistent with the experimental observations which cannot be explained by only local increases of the electrical field near the curvature of metallic nanoparticles determined by a finite-element solution of the Maxwell–Fresnel boundary problem as given by a numerical system like Comsol. The proper damping rate for plasmons can be identified by application of the Fermi Golden Rule approach to the plasmon-band electron coupling. We demonstrate this effect including the material and size dependence in two types of solar cells, multi-crystalline Si and CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-diselenide) as idealized photo-diode semiconductor substrate modified by various metallic nano-particles, in comparison to the experimental data and Comsol simulation.

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“…At the same time, a metal such as aluminum, which also has the property of maintaining plasmon resonance, can serve as a cheaper replacement for expensive materials. The high efficiency of the solar cell with aluminum nanoparticles located on the illuminated semiconductor surface is shown in [11]. A solar cell with hemispherical aluminum nanoparticles on the surface of a silver reflector and the front surface of an amorphous silicon layer textured with corresponding by shape and size texture elements is studied in [12].…”

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Numerical analysis of aluminum nanoparticle influence on the characteristics of a thin-film solar cell

Gnilenko¹

2019

Semicond. phys. quantum electr. optoelectron

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The influence of parameters of an aluminum nanoparticle layer on the characteristics of a thin-film amorphous silicon solar cell has been studied using the computer simulation methods. A design with a regular arrangement of nanoparticles both on the front and back sides of the solar cell has been considered. The distribution of photogeneration rate in the amorphous silicon layer has been obtained for different values of the nanoparticle radius. The effects of nanoparticle radius and nanoparticle spacing on the electrical characteristics of a solar cell have been analyzed. It has been shown that, with optimal parameters of nanoparticles, it is possible to significantly increase the efficiency of solar cells.

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Ultraviolet Plasmonic Aluminium Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Light Incoupling on Silicon Solar Cells

Cited by 59 publications

References 39 publications

A Simulation Study of Surface Plasmons in Metallic Nanoparticles: Dependence on the Properties of an Embedding a‐Si:H Matrix

A Simulation Study of Surface Plasmons in Metallic Nanoparticles: Dependence on the Properties of an Embedding a‐Si:H Matrix

On Modeling of Plasmon-Induced Enhancement of the Efficiency of Solar Cells Modified by Metallic Nano-Particles

Numerical analysis of aluminum nanoparticle influence on the characteristics of a thin-film solar cell

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