The effect of different surface plasmon polariton shapes on thin-film solar cell efficiency
| Autor: | Hamdy Abdelhamid, Khalil Mahmoud ElKhamisy, Salah S. Elagooz, El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Work (thermodynamics)
Materials science integumentary system Computer simulation Equivalent series resistance business.industry Multiphysics food and beverages Surface plasmon polariton Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention Semiconductor law Modeling and Simulation biological sciences Solar cell Optoelectronics Thin film solar cell Electrical and Electronic Engineering business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Computational Electronics. 20:1807-1814 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8137 1569-8025 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10825-021-01729-0 |
| Popis: | The effects of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on the efficiency, series resistance, and shunt resistance of thin-film Si solar cells are studied and analyzed in this work. Different SPP shapes and their effects on the optical and electrical properties and thereby the efficiency of thin-film solar cells are studied. Semiconductor and electromagnetic models are incorporated to study the electrical and optical behaviors of the thin-film solar cells, respectively, using COMSOL Multiphysics three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulation software. An efficiency of 14.76% is achieved for triangular SPPs, representing a 1.07% improvement compared with SPP-free solar cells. The solar cell electrical parameters are also extracted based on a single-diode equivalent model. The series resistance is decreased by 3% for solar cells having equilateral-triangle SPPs compared with SPP-free solar cells. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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