Pronounced optical gain attained in Ag/AZO structure for solar cell applications

Y. Y. FENG; H. P. ZHOU; Y. XIANG; H. JI; X. H. CHANG; C. WANG

doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2016.04.199

Pronounced optical gain attained in Ag/AZO structure for solar cell applications

Y. Y. FENG, H. P. ZHOU^*, Y. XIANG^*, H. JI, X. H. CHANG, C. WANG

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Abstract

Recently plasmonic effect has attracted tremendous interests due to its ability of light trapping and improving the photovoltaic performances of solar cells. In this letter, we propose a solution method based fabrication route of Ag plasmons and realize a pronounced optical gain in ZnO:Al (AZO) thin film, which is strongly beneficial to harvest incident sunlight in thin film solar cells. Processing parameters, such as spinning speed, coating times and post-annealing temperature, could be regulated to optimize the plasmon effects of silver particles. The reflectance of silver particles coated AZO (Ag/AZO) is reduced by ~18%, and the transmittance is enhanced by ~40% simultaneously. The underlying mechanisms are discussed in combination with the microstructures of the silver particles.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	18-22
Number of pages	5
Journal	Materials Letters
Volume	178
Early online date	26 Apr 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2016.04.199
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2016
Externally published	Yes

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This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 51302028).

Keywords

AZO
Deposition
Particles
Plasmons
Reflectance
Transmittance

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