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Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-film Solar cells with Plasmonic-enhanced Light-trapping
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July 02, 2012
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Polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells on glass are fabricated by deposition of boron and phosphorous doped silicon layers followed by crystallisation, defect passivation and metallisation. Plasmonic light-trapping is introduced by forming Ag nanoparticles on the silicon cell surface capped with a diffused reflector resulting in ~45% photocurrent enhancement.
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Varlamov, S., Rao, J., Soderstrom, T. Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-film Solar cells with Plasmonic-enhanced Light-trapping. J. Vis. Exp. (65), e4092, doi:10.3791/4092 (2012).
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