Plasmonic silicon solar cells: impact of material quality and geometry

Limit of light coupling strength in solar cells

(2013) A. Naqavi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Infrared light management in high-efficiency silicon heterojunction and rear-passivated solar cells

(2013) Zachary C. Holman et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Light Trapping by Ag Nanoparticles Chemically Assembled inside Thin-Film Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Si Solar Cells

(2012) Hidenori Mizuno et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Plasmonic Light Trapping in Thin-film Silicon Solar Cells with Improved Self-Assembled Silver Nanoparticles

(2012) Hairen Tan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Harnessing plasmonics for solar cells

(2012) Martin A. Green et al.   Nature Photonics

Thermodynamic Upper Bound on Broadband Light Coupling with Photonic Structures

(2012) Zongfu Yu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

3-D optical modeling of thin-film silicon solar cells on diffraction gratings

(2012) Olindo Isabella et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Front side plasmonic effect on thin silicon epitaxial solar cells

(2012) Ounsi El Daif et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Application of plasmonic silver island films in thin-film silicon solar cells

(2012) R Santbergen et al.   Journal of Optics

Optical simulations of microcrystalline silicon solar cells applying plasmonic reflection grating back contacts

(2012) Ulrich W. Paetzold   Journal of Photonics for Energy

Stencil-Nanopatterned Back Reflectors for Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon n-i-p Solar Cells

(2012) Celine Pahud et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Modeling Light Trapping in Nanostructured Solar Cells

(2011) Vivian E. Ferry et al.   ACS Nano

Highly reflective nanotextured sputtered silver back reflector for flexible high-efficiency n–i–p thin-film silicon solar cells

(2011) K. Söderström et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Metallic Nanodot Arrays by Stencil Lithography for Plasmonic Biosensing Applications

(2010) Oscar Vazquez-Mena et al.   ACS Nano

Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices

(2010) Harry A. Atwater et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Enhancing InGaN-based solar cell efficiency through localized surface plasmon interaction by embedding Ag nanoparticles in the absorbing layer

(2010) Jyh-Yang Wang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Absorption enhancement of an amorphous Si solar cell through surface plasmon-induced scattering with metal nanoparticles

(2010) Fu-Ji Tsai et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Understanding of photocurrent enhancement in real thin film solar cells: towards optimal one-dimensional gratings

(2010) Ali Naqavi et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Simulation and modelling of photonic and plasmonic crystal back reflectors for efficient light trapping

(2010) Rana Biswas et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Photocurrent enhancement in thin film amorphous silicon solar cells with silver nanoparticles

(2010) C. Eminian et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Photon management by metallic nanodiscs in thin film solar cells

(2009) Carsten Rockstuhl et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Tunable light trapping for solar cells using localized surface plasmons

(2009) F. J. Beck et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Polycrystalline ZnO: B grown by LPCVD as TCO for thin film silicon solar cells

(2009) Sylvie Faÿ et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

Improved light absorption in thin-film silicon solar cells by integration of silver nanoparticles

(2008) E. Moulin et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS