Journal
CHINESE PHYSICS B
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/22/4/045202
Keywords
transmittance; surface plasmon resonance; Ag nanoparticles; thin film solar cells
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- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2011-Ia-002, 2012-Ia-031]
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Thin film solar cells have the potential to significantly reduce the cost of photovoltaics. Light trapping is crucial to such a thin film silicon solar cell because of a low absorption coefficient due to its indirect band gap. In this paper, we investigate the suitability of surface plasmon resonance Ag nanoparticles for enhancing optical absorption in the thin film solar cell. For evaluating the transmittance capability of Ag nanoparticles and the conventional antireflection film, an enhanced transmittance factor is introduced. We find that under the solar spectrum AM1.5, the transmittance of Ag nanoparticles with radius over 160 nm is equivalent to that of conventional textured antireflection film, and its effect is better than that of the planar antireflection film. The influence of the surrounding medium is also discussed.
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