Plasmon-enhanced internal photoemission for photovoltaics: Theoretical efficiency limits

Surface plasmon enhanced IR absorption: Design and experiment

Metal corrugated surfaces have the potential of enhancing optical absorption through surface plasmon (SP) excitation facilitated by light-metal interactions. The successful utilization of metal corrugation induced optical absorption can improve the response of free carrier absorption (FCA), based HEterojunction Interfacial Workfunction Internal Photoemission (HEIWIP) detectors. This article rep...

Design considerations for plasmonic photovoltaics.

This paper reviews the recent research progress in the incorporation of plasmonic nanostructures with photovoltaic devices and the potential for surface plasmon enhanced absorption. We first outline a variety of cell architectures incorporating metal nanostructures. We then review the experimental fabrication methods and measurements to date, as well as systematic theoretical studies of the opt...

Plasmonic backscattering enhanced inverted photovoltaics

Cascaded plasmon-plasmon coupling mediated energy transfer across stratified metal-dielectric nanostructures

Surface plasmon (SP) coupling has been successfully applied to nonradiative energy transfer via exciton-plasmon-exciton coupling in conventionally sandwiched donor-metal film-acceptor configurations. However, these structures lack the desired efficiency and suffer poor photoemission due to the high energy loss. Here, we show that the cascaded exciton-plasmon-plasmon-exciton coupling in stratifi...

ICAMMP 2011 International Conference on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 9‐11 December, 2011 Study of ‘gold black’ coating as potential thin film solar cell efficiency enhancer

Efficiency enhancement of thin film solar cells was obtained using deposited gold-black particles as scattering centers. Gold black is shown to give a broad particle size distribution from nm to several microns. This results in plasma resonance-enhanced scattering and intensified local electric field over a broad spectrum. Initial experiments on thin film solar cells with gold black showed an i...