Hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cell on glass substrate patterned by hexagonal nanocylinder array

Wei Chen Tu; Yi Tsung Chang; Chieh Hung Yang; Dan Ju Yeh; Chung I. Ho; Chun Yuan Hsueh; Si Chen Lee

doi:10.1063/1.3515853

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cell on glass substrate patterned by hexagonal nanocylinder array

Wei Chen Tu, Yi Tsung Chang, Chieh Hung Yang, Dan Ju Yeh, Chung I. Ho, Chun Yuan Hsueh, Si Chen Lee

Doctoral Degree Program on Nano-Integrated-Circuit Engineering

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The hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin film solar cell fabricated on the glass substrate patterned by hexagonal nanocylinder array prepared by self-assembled SiO₂ nanoparticles and nanosphere lithography was investigated. It is demonstrated that the short-circuit current of the patterned solar cell with 65 nm depth nanocylinder increases from 12.3 to 14.4 mA/ cm², and the efficiency increases from 5.18% to 6.59% as compared to the flat solar cell. These phenomena suggest that both effective light trapping and localized surface plasmon lead to significant improvement of light absorption in amorphous silicon solar cells.

Original language	English
Article number	193109
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	97
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3515853
Publication status	Published - 2010 Nov 8

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