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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 99 / Issue 6 / NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND DESIGN

Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 063102 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3623483 (3 pages)

Tolerance study of nanoparticle enhancement for thin-film silicon solar cells

Yu. A. Akimov and W. S. Koh

Electronics and Photonics Department, Institute of High Performance Computing, 1 Fusionopolis Way, #16-16 Connexis, Singapore 138632

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(Received 21 June 2011; accepted 19 July 2011; published online 8 August 2011)

The improved light trapping caused by incorporation of plasmonic nanoparticles makes it possible to significantly increase the performance of thin-film silicon solar cells. To investigate stability of this enhancement, a systematic study on random distribution of the nanoparticles is performed. Based on predictive numerical modeling, effects such as the influence of random nanoparticle sizes, shapes, and mutual positions are discussed and analyzed with respect to reproducibility of the enhancement by silver nanoparticles for thin-film hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells.

© 2011 American Institute of Physics

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Keywords

amorphous semiconductors, elemental semiconductors, nanoparticles, numerical analysis, plasmonics, silicon, silver, solar cells, thin film devices

PACS

  • 88.40.jj

    Silicon solar cells

  • 61.46.Df

    Structure of nanocrystals and nanoparticles ("colloidal" quantum dots but not gate-isolated embedded quantum dots)

  • 88.40.hj

    Efficiency and performance of solar cells

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3623483

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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    References

    Yu. A. Akimov, W. S. Koh, S. Y. Sian, and S. Ren, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 073111 (2010)APPLAB000096000007073111000001.

    K. R. Catchpole and A. Polman, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 191113 (2008)APPLAB000093000019191113000001.


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