Broadband light-trapping in ultra-thin nano-structured solar cells

Clément Colin; Inès Massiot; Andrea Cattoni; Nicolas Vandamme; Christophe Dupuis; Nathalie Bardou; Isabelle Gerard; Negar Naghavi; Jean-François Guillemoles; Jean-Luc Pelouard; Stéphane Collin

doi:10.1117/12.2004269

25 March 2013 Broadband light-trapping in ultra-thin nano-structured solar cells

Clément Colin, Inès Massiot, Andrea Cattoni, Nicolas Vandamme, Christophe Dupuis, Nathalie Bardou, Isabelle Gerard, Negar Naghavi, Jean-François Guillemoles, Jean-Luc Pelouard, Stéphane Collin

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Proceedings Volume 8620, Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices II; 86200C (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004269
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Conventional light trapping techniques are inefficient at the sub-wavelength scale. This is the main limitation for the thickness reduction of thin-film solar cells below 500nm. We propose a novel architecture for broadband light absorption in ultra-thin active layers based on plasmonic nano-cavities and multi-resonant mechanism. Strong light enhancement will be shown numerically for photovoltaic materials such as CIGSe and GaAs. First experiments on ultrathin nano-patterned CIGSe solar cells will be presented.

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Clément Colin, Inès Massiot, Andrea Cattoni, Nicolas Vandamme, Christophe Dupuis, Nathalie Bardou, Isabelle Gerard, Negar Naghavi, Jean-François Guillemoles, Jean-Luc Pelouard, and Stéphane Collin "Broadband light-trapping in ultra-thin nano-structured solar cells", Proc. SPIE 8620, Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices II, 86200C (25 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004269

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