Zachary Oravec @ on
How extensively have nanoparticles been tested in the field of solar cells?
I have seen research that has included silver nanoparticles placed in the wafers of Si. I’ve also seen GaN and GaAs mentioned in nanoparticle study, but havn’t seen the acual papers.
I was wondering if anyone knew particular research about including nanoparticles with these semiconductors or what other semiconductors that havn’t been researched with nanoparticle enhancements?
Thanks, Zach
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Mohanad Zaki @ on
Hi,
The stuff that you are looking is regarding plasmonics.
The following paper details experimental results of the plasmonic enhancement of solar cells: http://etylab.ece.utexas.edu/pdfpubs/apl_feb05.pdf
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and in case the direct pdf document link is no longer accessible:
“Enhanced semiconductor optical absorption via surface plasmon excitation in metal nanoparticles” by Schaadt et al.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 063106 (2005); doi:10.1063/1.1855423
http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v86/i6/p063106_s1?isAuthorized=no
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