Seminar Slide Roll-1704057-Compressed

Heaven’s Light is Our Guide
Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology

Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Title: Resonant and Non-resonant plasmonic nanoparticle

enhancement for thin-film silicon solar cells.
Presented By: Supervised By:

Anik Halder Sham Datto
Roll:1704057 Assistant professor
Dept. of ETE Dept. of ETE,
RUET, Rajshahi-6204, Bangladesh RUET, Rajshahi-6204, Bangladesh
Introduction
❑ The field of plasmonic photovoltaic has a attractive approach for use scattering
from metallic nanostructures deposited on top of thin-film solar cells to improve
light trapping and energy conversion efficiency of the cells.
❑There are many kinds of nanoparticle that can enhancement the performance of
thin film silicon solar cells.
❑The nanoparticle are mainly two types such as resonant and non-resonant.
❑For resonant nanoparticle Ag(silver) is gaining popularity in the making of thin

film silicon solar cells. On the other hand Al(aluminium) in non-resonant.
Literature Review
Authors Considerations Limitations

Stuart H R and Hall D G [2] Improving the cell’s optical Low efficiency nanopartical
absorption and giving rise to a selection.
stronger photocurrent response
Catchpole K R and Polman A[3] The crucial role in the observed This limit is determined by optical
enhancements is due to the proper properties of the nanoparticle
selection of the nanoparticle material.
parameters.
Nie S and Emory S R [4] various plasmonic applications, Low parasitic degradation.
from enhanced fluorescence and
Raman scattering.
Moulin E, Sukmanowski J, Schulte Ag is also the material of choice. High plasmon-induced losses.
M, Gordijn A, Royer F X and Stiebig It exhibits lower parasitic
H[5] absorption and better coupling
Motivations
❑ The enhancement for thin film silicon solar cell is proposed with a
view to :
1. Higher optical absorption in the photoactive region than only aluminium

nanoparticles.
2. To maintain a net positive enhancement of the optical absorption .
3. To get a negative effect by silver nanoparticles, when the nanoparticles are
oxidized.
Effectiveness and Absorption rate
of silicon solar cell
The full set of 3D Maxwell’s equations: Where,

∇ × E = iωμ0H , ∇ × H = −iωε0εE (1) A(ω)= Spectral absorption rate
Qinc = SF(ω) is the spectral power
The spectral absorption rates coming from the Sun over the solar
A(ω) = Qabs(ω) /Qinc(ω), (2) cell surface S;
Qabs(ω) is the spectral power absorbed
The integral over the element volume V : by each element
Qabs(ω) = ωε0 /2 ∫vIm[ε(ω)]|E|2dV. (3) Qtotabs =total power absorbed by the
photoactive region
Total power absorbed by different components
Qtot abs =∫ A(ω)F(ω) dω. (4)
Simulation and Result
a)ω > 2.75 eV

a)ultravoilet
Figure 1. Spectral absorption rate A(ω) of the Figure 1(b) shows the comparison
a-Si:H photoactive region (solid lines) and the of the resonant and non-resonant
nanoparticle array (dashed lines) in a cell coupling effects for the Ag and Al
enhanced and as a function of frequency w. nanoparticle arrays of R = 80 nm
and η = 11%.
Simulation and result
This figure shows the maximum

enhancement that can be achieved by using
Ag and Al nanoparticles with the radius R
and the corresponding optimum surface
coverage ηmax,
Figure 2. (a) Maximum enhancement of the optical

absorption in the a-Si:H region (as compared to the
reference cell), as a function of nanoparticle radius
R and (b) corresponding optimum coverage ηmax to
attain the maximum enhancement, as a function of
radius R.
Conclusion
❑Al is a very good candidate among the commonly used

metals.
❑Ag is very good among the resonant used metal
References
❑[2] Stuart H R and Hall D G 1998 Appl. Phys. Lett. 73 3815

❑[3] Catchpole K R and Polman A 2008 Opt. Express 16 21793
❑[4] Nie S and Emory S R 1997 Science 275 1102
❑[5] Moulin E, Sukmanowski J, Schulte M, Gordijn A, Royer F X and
Stiebig H 2007 Thin Solid Films 516 6813
❑[6] Pillai S, Catchpole K R, Trupke T and Green M A 2007 J. Appl. Phys.
101 093105
❑ [7] Rockstuhl C and Lederer F 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 213102
❑[8] Nakayama K, Tanabe K and Atwater H A 2008 Appl. Phys. Lett. 93
121904
Thank You for Your
Attention

Seminar Slide Roll-1704057-Compressed

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Seminar Slide Roll-1704057-Compressed

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Seminar Slide Roll-1704057-Compressed

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Heaven’s Light is Our Guide

Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology

Title: Resonant and Non-resonant plasmonic nanoparticle

Presented By: Supervised By:

❑For resonant nanoparticle Ag(silver) is gaining popularity in the making of thin

Authors Considerations Limitations

1. Higher optical absorption in the photoactive region than only aluminium

The full set of 3D Maxwell’s equations: Where,

a)ω > 2.75 eV

This figure shows the maximum

Figure 2. (a) Maximum enhancement of the optical

❑Al is a very good candidate among the commonly used

❑[2] Stuart H R and Hall D G 1998 Appl. Phys. Lett. 73 3815

You might also like