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Metal nanoparticles in a photovoltaic cell: Effect of metallic loss

Author(s) -

Ryosuke Watanabe,

Kenjiro Miyano

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

aip advances

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421

H-Index - 58

ISSN - 2158-3226

DOI - 10.1063/1.3665682

Subject(s) - nanoparticle , materials science , metal , photovoltaic system , polarization (electrochemistry) , layer (electronics) , solar cell , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , chemical physics , metallurgy , chemistry , ecology , biology

We examined numerically the contribution of contrasting characteristics of metal nanoparticles, strong polarization and metallic loss, to the total efficiency of photovoltaic cells. A layer of nanoparticle array was chosen as a model. We found that depending on the location of the layer in the cell, the metallic loss offsets the enhanced photoabsorption due to the strong near field. A general procedure to reduce a nanoparticle layer into a sheet of effective continuous medium is presented, which greatly facilitates the quantitative analysis

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