Выходит 12 номеров в год
ISSN Печать: 0040-2508
ISSN Онлайн: 1943-6009
Indexed in
COMPUTER SIMULATION OF A THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL WITH DOUBLE-SIDED COATING OF ALUMINUM NANOPARTICLES
Краткое описание
A numerical simulation of an amorphous silicon thin-film solar cell with double-sided coating of aluminum nanoparticles above and below the photoactive layer was carried out. The distribution of solar radiation intensity in the photoactive layer of amorphous silicon was calculated using FDTD method, and the basic electrical characteristics of the solar cell were obtained. For the considered solar cell design, optimal sizes and arrangement of nanoparticles were found and the possibility of increasing the solar cell efficiency due to solar radiation retention in the photoactive layer was demonstrated.
-
Tube, W.R. and Kumar, A., (2011) Simulation of N-type PERL silicon solar cell structure, J. of Nano- and Electronic Physics, 3(1), pp. 1127-1136.
-
Atwater, H.A. and Polman, A., (2010) Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices, Nature Materials, 9, pp. 205-213.
-
Ferry, V.E., Munday, J.N., and Atwater, H.A., (2010) Design considerations for plasmonic photovoltaics, Advanced Materials, 22, pp. 4794-4808.
-
Ghahremani, A. and Fathy, A.E., (2016) High efficiency thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells, Energy Science and Engineering, 4, pp. 334-343.
-
Derkacs, D., Lim, S.H., Matheu, P., Mar, W., and Yu, E.T., (2006) Improved performance of amorphous silicon solar cells via scattering from surface plasmon polaritons in nearby metallic nanoparticles, Applied Physics Letters, 89, pp. 093103-1-093103-3.
-
Singh, Y.P., Kumar, A., Jain, A., and Kapoor, A., (2013) Enhancement in optical absorption of plasmonic solar cells, The Open Renewable Energy Journal, 6, pp. 1-6.
-
Wang, P.H., Theuring, M., Vehse, M., Steenhoff, V., Agert, C., and Brolo, A.G., (2017) Light trapping in a-Si:H thin film solar cells using silver nanostructures, AIPAdvances, 7, pp. 015019-1-015019-8.
-
Faraone, G., Modi, R., Marom, S., Podest, A., and Vece, M., (2018) Increasing the optical absorption in a-Si thin films by embedding gold Nanoparticles, Optical Materials, 75, pp. 204-210.
-
Gandhi, K.K., Nejim, A., Beliatis, M., Mills, C.A. et al., (2015) Simultaneous optical and electrical modeling of plasmonic light trapping in thin-film amorphous silicon photovoltaic devices, SPIE Journal of Photonics for Energy, 5(1), pp. 1-22.
-
ATLAS User's Manual, (2015), Santa Clara, CA: Silvaco, p. 1674.