Title :
Optical absorption enhancement in solar cell employing plasmonic nanowire as the core of C-Si nanowire
Author :
Khalil, Md Ibrahim ; Rahman, Aminur ; Chowdhury, Arshad M. ; Gee-Kung Chang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., North South Univ., Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract :
We propose a simple plasmonic nanostructure based nanowire crystalline Silicon solar cell by integrating silver core with nanowire. We found 63% better ultimate efficiency compared to conventional nanowire structures for fixedfilling ratio and length.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; infrared spectra; nanophotonics; nanowires; plasmonics; silicon; silver; solar cells; visible spectra; Ag-Si; C-Si nanowire; crystalline silicon; efficiency; efficiency 63 percent; fixed filling ratio; fixed length; optical absorption enhancement; plasmonic nanowire; solar cell; Absorption; Optical films; Optical reflection; Photovoltaic systems; Plasmons; Silicon; Silver;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
