Absorption enhancement in hexagonal plasmonic solar cell

Author

Muhammad, Muhammad H. ; Hameed, Mohamed Farhat O. ; Obayya, Salah S. A.

Author_Institution

Center for Photonics & Smart Mater., Zewail City of Sci. & Technol., Giza, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

64

Abstract

In this paper, a novel design of hexagonal cylindrical plasmonic solar cell (HC-PSC) is investigated and analysed by using 3D finite difference time domain method. The aim of our work is to get maximum absorption of thin film solar cell by scattering the light from metal nanoparticles. Therefore the effects of the structure geometrical parameters on the absorption are investigated. The numerical results show around 35% absorption improvement compared to the conventional thin film solar cell without metal nanoparticles.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave scattering; finite difference time-domain analysis; light absorption; solar cells; 3D finite difference time domain method; HC-PSC; absorption enhancement; hexagonal cylindrical plasmonic solar cell; hexagonal plasmonic solar cell; light scattering; maximum absorption; metal nanoparticles; structure geometrical parameters; thin film solar cell; Absorption; Finite difference methods; Light trapping; Nanoparticles; Optical films; Photovoltaic; absorption enhancement; finite difference time domain; plasmonic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2014 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palma de Mallorca

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3681-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2014.6935357

Filename

6935357