Numerical Analysis of Efficiency Enhancement in Plasmonic Thin-Film Solar Cells by Using the SILVACO TCAD Simulator
KIM Un-Chol1**, JIANG Xiao-Qing2
1Department of Materials Science, Kim Il Song University, Pyongyang, D. P. R. Korea 2Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027
Numerical Analysis of Efficiency Enhancement in Plasmonic Thin-Film Solar Cells by Using the SILVACO TCAD Simulator
KIM Un-Chol1**, JIANG Xiao-Qing2
1Department of Materials Science, Kim Il Song University, Pyongyang, D. P. R. Korea 2Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027
Abstract:A physical model for simulating plasmonic solar cells (SCs) using the SILVACO TCAD simulator is established and the effects of some factors on the efficiency enhancement of the amorphous silicon thin film SCs are simulated. Through this simulation, it is demonstrated that our method can successfully simulate the optical and electrical properties of plasmonic solar cells without the overestimation of the characteristics and without the neglect of parameter change in the device operation process. It is shown that not only the size and kind of metal nanoparticles but also other factors, such as the surrounding medium, the distance from the bottom of particles to the device surface, and the light incident angle, play important roles in the optical and electrical properties of plasmonic SCs.
KIM Un-Chol, JIANG Xiao-Qing. Numerical Analysis of Efficiency Enhancement in Plasmonic Thin-Film Solar Cells by Using the SILVACO TCAD Simulator[J]. 中国物理快报, 2012, 29(6): 67301-067301.
KIM Un-Chol, JIANG Xiao-Qing. Numerical Analysis of Efficiency Enhancement in Plasmonic Thin-Film Solar Cells by Using the SILVACO TCAD Simulator. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2012, 29(6): 67301-067301.