naa a22 4500 510817459 CHVBK 20180411083515.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11468-013-9485-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11468-013-9485-2 Absorption Enhancements in Plasmonic Solar Cells Coated with Metallic Nanoparticles [Elektronische Daten] [Meng Yang, Jie Li, Feng Lin, Xing Zhu] We find that three mechanisms lead to the absorption enhancements of light in a thin-film amorphous silicon solar cell coated with a periodic array of silver nanoparticles on the rear surface according to our simulation. They are localized surface plasmon modes of the silver nanoparticles, Fabry-Pérot resonant cavity modes and waveguide effects. Each enhancing mechanism can yield a maximum absorption enhancement of over two times at the corresponding resonant wavelengths when the nanoparticles cover 20% of the solar cell surface, and an average absorption enhancement of up to 57% can be achieved in the AM 1.5G solar spectrum. The absorption enhancements can also be tuned in spectrum to optimize the total absorption in a plasmonic solar cell. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Surface plasmon nationallicence Thin-film solar cells nationallicence Absorption enhancement nationallicence Silicon nationallicence Nanoparticles nationallicence Yang Meng School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut Li Jie School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut Lin Feng School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut Zhu Xing School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut Plasmonics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/2(2013-06-01), 877-883 1557-1955 8:2<877 2013 8 11468 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-013-9485-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-013-9485-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yang Meng School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Li Jie School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lin Feng School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhu Xing School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Plasmonics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/2(2013-06-01), 877-883 1557-1955 8:2<877 2013 8 11468 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer