Journal
PHOTONICS AND NANOSTRUCTURES-FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 291-296Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2010.03.003
Keywords
Solar cells; Thin films; Plasmonics; Filters; Intermediate reflectors
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Thin film tandem solar cells made of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon provide renewable energy at the benefit of low material consumption. As a drawback, these materials do not posses the high carrier mobilities of their crystalline counterpart which limits the feasible material thickness. For maintaining the light absorption as high as possible, photon management is required. Here we show that metallic nanodiscs that sustain localized plasmon polaritons can increase the efficiency of such solar cells if they are incorporated into the dielectric intermediate reflector separating the top and the bottom cell. We provide quantitative estimates for the possible absorption enhancement of optimized bi-periodic nanodiscs that are feasible for fabrication. Emphasis is also put on discussing the impact of obliquely incident sun light on the solar cell performance. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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