Effect of nanoparticle size distribution on the performance of plasmonic thin-film solar cells: monodisperse versus multidisperse arrays

Wang, Er-Chien, Mokkapati, Sudha ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3260-6560, Soderstrom, Thomas, Varlamov, Sergey and Catchpole, Kylie R. 2013. Effect of nanoparticle size distribution on the performance of plasmonic thin-film solar cells: monodisperse versus multidisperse arrays. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 3 (1) , pp. 267-270. 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2210195

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Abstract

The effect of the silver nanoparticle size distribution on the performance of plasmonic polycrystalline Si thin-film solar cells is studied. Monodisperse particle arrays are fabricated using nanoimprint lithography. Multidispersed particle arrays are fabricated using thermal evaporation followed by annealing. The short-circuit current enhancement for the cells without a back reflector is 24% and 18% with the multidisperse array and the monodispersed array, respectively. For the cells with a back reflector, the current enhancement increases to 34% and 30%, respectively, compared with 13% enhancement due to the reflector alone. Better performance of multidisperse Ag nanoparticle arrays is attributed to a broader scattering cross section of the array owing to a broad particle size distribution and a higher nanoparticle coverage.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	resonance light scattering, Nanolithography, nanophotonics, photovoltaic cells
Publisher:	IEEE Electron Devices Society
ISSN:	2156-3381
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2022 09:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/104924

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