Elevating Efficiency in Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells: Exploring the Influence of Monomer and Dimer Plasmonic Nanoparticles

This investigation employs optoelectronic simulation to explore the performance of silicon thin-film solar cells with the addition of plasmonic nanoparticles. The main focus of this study is to increase the efficiency of silicon thin-film solar cells by introducing plasmonic nanoparticles in both mo...

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Main Authors: Oni, Atib Mohammad, Mohsin, Abu S. M., Rahman, Md. Mosaddequr, Hossain Bhuian, Mohammed Belal
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Absorption
Costs
Coupling effect
Monomer and Dimer
Nanoparticles
Photovoltaic cells
Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Plasmons
Silicon
Silver
Thin-film
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Summary:This investigation employs optoelectronic simulation to explore the performance of silicon thin-film solar cells with the addition of plasmonic nanoparticles. The main focus of this study is to increase the efficiency of silicon thin-film solar cells by introducing plasmonic nanoparticles in both monomer and dimer configurations. The utilization of plasmonic nanoparticles in silicon thin-film solar cells exhibits excellent results. Initially, an 8.62% efficiency was achieved by simulating a basic silicon thin-film solar cell with an absorber layer only 2µm thick. However, the efficiency increased to 13.5% after incorporating a silver nanoparticles into the absorber layer. Moreover, using nanoparticles in a dimer form resulted in an efficiency of 18.3%. This experiment suggests that nanoparticles with a specific arrangement, where two particles are closely positioned, can significantly improve the efficiency of silicon thin-film solar cells.
ISSN:2769-5700
DOI:10.1109/ICEEICT62016.2024.10534554