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Plasmonic Thin Film Solar Cells

In: Nanostructured Solar Cells

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  • Qiuping Huang
  • Xiang Hu
  • Zhengping Fu
  • Yalin Lu

Abstract

Thin film solar cell technology represents an alternative way to effectively solve the world's increasing energy shortage problem. Light trapping is of critical importance. Surface plasmons (SPs), including both localized surface plasmons (LSPs) excited in the metallic nanoparticles and surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagating at the metal/semiconductor interfaces, have been so far extensively investigated with great interests in designing thin film solar cells. In this chapter, plasmonic structures to improve the performance of thin film solar cell are reviewed according to their positions of the nanostructures, which can be divided into at least three ways: directly on top of thin film solar cell, embedded at the bottom or middle of the optical absorber layer, and hybrid of metallic nanostructures with nanowire of optical absorber layer.

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  • Qiuping Huang & Xiang Hu & Zhengping Fu & Yalin Lu, 2017. "Plasmonic Thin Film Solar Cells," Chapters, in: Narottam Das (ed.), Nanostructured Solar Cells, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:105583
    DOI: 10.5772/65388
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    Keywords

    thin film solar cells; light trapping; localized surface plasmons (LSPs); surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs); light absorption enhancement;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General

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