Polarization-Transmissive Thin-Film Solar Cell with Photodiode Nanowires

Author

Hirose, Kenichiro ; Mita, Yoshio ; Sakai, Shuichi

Author_Institution

Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo

fYear

2007

fDate

Aug. 12 2007-July 16 2007

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

30

Abstract

The polarization-transmissive thin-film solar cell, which consists of a 400 nm-wide silicon photodiode-nanowire grid, transmits the light polarized in one direction and generates photocurrent from the light polarized in the other direction. It can efficiently use light in the system which uses polarization. The fabricated device generated 52 nA photocurrent from the 250 muW incident light by a fluorescent light and achieved the extinction-ratio of 4 for the incident light whose wavelength was 675 nm.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; light polarisation; nanotechnology; nanowires; photodiodes; silicon; solar cells; Si; Si - Interface; current 52 nA; extinction-ratio; fluorescent light; incident light; light polarization; photocurrent; photodiode nanowires; size 400 nm; thin-film solar cell; wavelength 675 nm; Mesh generation; Nanowires; Optical polarization; Photoconductivity; Photodiodes; Photovoltaic cells; Semiconductor thin films; Silicon; Solar power generation; Transistors; DRIE with controlled vertical profile; energy scavenging; high aspect-ratio trench; polarization; thin-film solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, 2007 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hualien

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0641-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OMEMS.2007.4373824

Filename

4373824