naa a22 4500 510815804 CHVBK 20180411083507.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11468-012-9412-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11468-012-9412-y Antireflection TiO x Coating with Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles for Silicon Solar Cells [Elektronische Daten] [Z. Starowicz, M. Lipiński, K. Berent, R. Socha, K. Szczepanowicz, T. Kruk] It is known that the light scattering from the metal particles deposited on the surfaces of cells can be used for increasing light trapping in the solar cells. In this work, plasmonic structures are composite materials that consisted of silver nanoparticles embedded in dielectric films of TiO x —used as cell antireflection coating. The films are deposited by sol-gel method using spin-on technique. Microstructure of prepared samples is analyzed by SEM observation. Good homogenity and particles density was obtained by this simple, cheap, and short time-demanding method. We demonstrate that due to light scattering by metal particles, the plasmonic-ARC layer is more effective than TiO x layer without Ag nanoparticles. Implementation of nanoparticles on bare cell surface was carried out too. The influence of the plasmonic structures on the silicon solar cells parameters is presented as well. We announce about 5% additional growth in short circuit current for cells with nanoparticles. The Author(s), 2012 Plasmonics nationallicence Photovoltaics nationallicence Silicon solar cells nationallicence Silver nanoparticles nationallicence Starowicz Z. Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science PAS, Reymonta 25, 30-059, Kraków, Poland aut Lipiński M. Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science PAS, Reymonta 25, 30-059, Kraków, Poland aut Berent K. Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science PAS, Reymonta 25, 30-059, Kraków, Poland aut Socha R. Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry PAS, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Kraków, Poland aut Szczepanowicz K. Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry PAS, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Kraków, Poland aut Kruk T. Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry PAS, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Kraków, Poland aut Plasmonics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/1(2013-03-01), 41-43 1557-1955 8:1<41 2013 8 11468 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-012-9412-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-012-9412-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Starowicz Z. Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science PAS, Reymonta 25, 30-059, Kraków, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lipiński M. Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science PAS, Reymonta 25, 30-059, Kraków, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berent K. Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science PAS, Reymonta 25, 30-059, Kraków, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Socha R. Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry PAS, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Kraków, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Szczepanowicz K. Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry PAS, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Kraków, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kruk T. Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry PAS, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Kraków, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Plasmonics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/1(2013-03-01), 41-43 1557-1955 8:1<41 2013 8 11468 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer