Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1807-1814 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Computational Electronics |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2021 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
Keywords
- Efficiency improvement
- Surface plasmon polaritons
- Thin-film Si solar cells
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