Understanding the plasmonic properties of dewetting formed Ag nanoparticles for large area solar cell applications

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 18344-18353

  Günendi, M Can ^a   Tanyeli, Irem ^b,c   Akgüç, Gürsoy B ^a   Bek, Alpan ^b   Turan, Rasit ^b   Gülseren, Oguz ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c DUTCH INSTITUTE FOR FUNDAMENTAL ENERGY RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AG NANOPARTICLE; DE-WETTING; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; LARGE-AREA SOLAR CELLS; PLASMON RESONANCES; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; SURFACE MATCHING;

SILVER;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WETTABILITY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84880930320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.018344     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. H. A. Atwater and A. Polman, "Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices," Nat. Mater. 9(3), 205-213 (2010).
2. D. Derkacs, S. H. Lim, P. Matheu, W. Mar, and E. T. Yu, "Improved performance of amorphous silicon solar cells via scattering from surface plasmon polaritons in nearby metallic nanoparticles," Appl. Phys. Lett. 89(9), 093103 (2006).
3. M. Losurdo, M. M. Giangregorio, G. V. Bianco, A. Sacchetti, P. Capezzuto, and G. Bruno, "Enhanced absorption in Au nanoparticles/a-Si:H/c-Si heterojunction solar cells exploiting Au surface plasmon resonance," Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 93(10), 1749-1754 (2009).
4. K. R. Catchpole and A. Polman, "Design principles for particle plasmon enhanced solar cells," Appl. Phys. Lett. 93(19), 191113 (2008).
5. U. Guler and R. Turan, "Effect of particle properties and light polarization on the plasmonic resonances in metallic nanoparticles," Opt. Express 18(16), 17322-17338 (2010).
6. M. Schmid, R. Klenk, M. Ch. Lux-Steiner, M. Topič, and J. Krč, "Modeling plasmonic scattering combined with thin-film optics," Nanotechnology 22(2), 025204 (2011).
7. K. L. Kelly, E. Coronado, L. L. Zhao, and G. C. Schatz, "The optical properties of metal nanoparticles: The influence of size, shape, and dielectric environment," J. Phys. Chem. B 107(3), 668-677 (2003).
8. K. R. Catchpole and A. Polman, "Plasmonic solar cells," Opt. Express 16(26), 21793-21800 (2008).
9. R. B. Dunbar, T. Pfadler, and L. Schmidt-Mende, "Highly absorbing solar cells-a survey of plasmonic nanostructures," Opt. Express 20(S2 Suppl 2), A177-A189 (2012).
10. C. Ciracì, R. T. Hill, J. J. Mock, Y. Urzhumov, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, S. A. Maier, J. B. Pendry, A. Chilkoti, and D. R. Smith, "Probing the ultimate limits of plasmonic enhancement," Science 337(6098), 1072-1074 (2012).
11. A. F. Oskooi, D. Roundy, M. Ibanescu, P. Bermel, J. D. Joannopoulos, and S. G. Johnson, "MEEP: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method," Comput. Phys. Commun. 181(3), 687-702 (2010).
12. S. K. Gray and T. Kupka, "Propagation of light in metallic nanowire arrays: Finite-difference time-domain studies of silver cylinders," Phys. Rev. B 68(4), 045415 (2003).
13. S. Zhang, K. Bao, N. J. Halas, H. Xu, and P. Nordlander, "Substrate-induced fano resonances of a plasmonic nanocube: A Route to Increased-Sensitivity Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors Revealed," Nano Lett. 11(4), 1657-1663 (2011).
14. J. Jung, T. G. Pedersen, T. Søndergaard, K. Pedersen, A. N. Larsen, and B. B. Nielsen, "Electrostatic plasmon resonances of metal nanospheres in layered geometries," Phys. Rev. B 81(12), 125413 (2010).
15. U. Hohenester and A. Trügler, "MNPBEM-A Matlab toolbox for the simulation of plasmonic nanoparticles," Comput. Phys. Commun. 183(2), 370-381 (2012).
16. A. Centeno, F. Xie, and N. Alford, "Light absorption and field enhancement in two-dimensional arrays of closely spaced silver nanoparticles," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(2), 325-333 (2011).
17. T. L. Temple, G. D. K. Mahanama, H. S. Reehal, and D. M. Bagnall, "Influence of localized surface plasmon excitation in silver nanoparticles on the performance of silicon solar cells," Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 93(11), 1978-1985 (2009).
18. C. F. Bohren and D. R. Huffman, "Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles" (Wiley-VCH, 2004).
19. A. D. Rakic, A. B. Djurisic, J. M. Elazar, and M. L. Majewski, "Optical properties of metallic films for verticalcavity optoelectronic devices," Appl. Opt. 37(22), 5271-5283 (1998).