Yu, P;
Yao, Y;
Wu, J;
Niu, X;
Rogach, AL;
Wang, Z;
(2017)
Effects of Plasmonic Metal Core - Dielectric Shell Nanoparticles on the Broadband Light Absorption Enhancement in Thin Film Solar Cells.
Scientific Reports
, 7
, Article 7696. 10.1038/s41598-017-08077-9.
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Abstract
To guide the design of plasmonic solar cells, theoretical investigation of core (metal)-shell (dielectric) nanoparticles for light absorption enhancement in thin film Si solar cells is performed. In contrast to the reported simulations and experimental results that rear-located surface plasmon on bare metallic nanoparticles is preferred, the core-shell nanoparticles demonstrate better performance when surface plasmon is located in front of a solar cell. This has been attributed to the enhanced forward scattering with vanishing backward scattering preserved over a wide spectral range in core-shell nanoparticles. This work provides a concept to achieve enhanced forward scattering with weakened backward scattering in plasmonic thin film solar cells.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Effects of Plasmonic Metal Core - Dielectric Shell Nanoparticles on the Broadband Light Absorption Enhancement in Thin Film Solar Cells |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-08077-9 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08077-9 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Te images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1571678 |
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