Photonic and plasmonic structures for applications in solar cells

Conference Paper (2014)
Author(s)

Miro Zeman (TU Delft - Electrical Sustainable Energy)

Andrea Ingenito (TU Delft - Photovoltaic Materials and Devices)

Hairen Tan (TU Delft - Photovoltaic Materials and Devices)

DNP Linssen (Student TU Delft)

Rudi Santbergen (TU Delft - Photovoltaic Materials and Devices)

Arno H.M. Smets (TU Delft - Photovoltaic Materials and Devices)

O. Isabella (TU Delft - Photovoltaic Materials and Devices)

Department
Electrical Sustainable Energy
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/ASDAM.2014.6998700
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Publication Year
2014
Language
English
Department
Electrical Sustainable Energy
Pages (from-to)
1-4
ISBN (print)
978-1-4799-5474-2
ISBN (electronic)
978-1-4799-5475-9

Abstract

The effect of decoupled front/back textures and the application of photonic and plasmonic nanostructures on the performance of thin silicon solar cells was studied. New light trapping concepts based on diffraction on periodic photonic nanostructures and scattering using plasmonic structures have potential to outperform the currently used randomly textured structures. The study demonstrates that supporting layers of solar cells, such as transparent conductive oxides, doped layers and back reflectors, are responsible for significant parasitic absorption losses that prevent achieving 4n2 enhancement of light absorption in solar cells with silicon absorbers.

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