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The effect of different surface plasmon polariton shapes on thin-film solar cell efficiency

Authors: Khalil ElKhamisy, Hamdy Abdelhamid, Salah Elagooz, El-Sayed El-Rabaie

Published in: Journal of Computational Electronics | Issue 5/2021

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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.

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Title: The effect of different surface plasmon polariton shapes on thin-film solar cell efficiency
Authors: Khalil ElKhamisy
Hamdy Abdelhamid
Salah Elagooz
El-Sayed El-Rabaie
Publication date: 07-07-2021
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Computational Electronics / Issue 5/2021
Print ISSN: 1569-8025
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-021-01729-0

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