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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 4774-4782Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.004774
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- U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC04-94AL85000]
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Enhanced light trapping is an attractive technique for improving the efficiency of thin film silicon solar cells. In this paper, we use FDTD simulations to study the scattering properties of silicon nanostructures on a silicon substrate and their application as enhanced light trappers. We find that the scattered spectrum and angular scattering distribution strongly depend on the excitation direction, that is, from air to substrate or from substrate to air. At the dipole resonance wavelength the scattering angles tend to be very narrow compared to those of silicon nanostructures in the absence of a substrate. Based on these properties, we propose a new thin film silicon solar cell design incorporating silicon nanostructures on both the front and back surfaces for enhanced light trapping. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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