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Enhanced Absorption in InP Nanodisk Arrays on Ultra-Thin-Film Silicon for Solar Cell Applications
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Applied Physics, Photonics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7837-3681
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Applied Physics, Photonics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3333-9492
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Applied Physics, Photonics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4991-0585
2022 (English)In: Photonics, ISSN 2304-6732, Vol. 9, no 3, article id 157Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The photovoltaic (PV) market today is dominated by silicon (Si)-based solar cells, which, however, can be improved in performance and cost by developing technologies that use less material. We propose an indium phosphide (InP) nanoresonator array on silicon ultra-thin film with a combined thickness of 0.5 mu m to 2 mu m as a solution to minimize cost and maximize power efficiency. This paper focuses on simultaneously achieving broadband antireflection and enhanced absorption in thin-film Si with integrated InP nanodisk arrays. Electromagnetic simulations are used to design and optimize the reflectance and absorption of the proposed design. By varying the height and radius of the InP nanodisks on the Si substrate, together with the array pitch, a weighted reflectance minimum, with respect to the AM1.5 solar spectrum, of 2.9% is obtained in the wavelength range of 400 nm to 1100 nm. The antireflective properties are found to be a combination of a Mie-resonance-induced strong forward-scattering into the structure and an effective index-matching to the Si substrate. In terms of absorption, even up to 2 mu m from the Si surface the InP nanodisk/Si structure consistently shows superior performance compared to plain Si as well as a Si nanodisk/Si structure. At a depth of 500 nm from the surface of the substrate, the absorption values were found to be 47.5% for the InP nanodisk/Si structure compared to only 18.2% for a plain Si substrate. This shows that direct bandgap InP nanoresonator arrays on thin-film Si solar cells can be a novel design to enhance the absorption efficiency of the cell.

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MDPI AG , 2022. Vol. 9, no 3, article id 157
Keywords [en]
thin-film solar cell, InP, antireflection, Mie resonators, absorption, nanodisks
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Condensed Matter Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-311043DOI: 10.3390/photonics9030157ISI: 000774350100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85126582700OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-311043DiVA, id: diva2:1652901
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Available from: 2022-04-20 Created: 2022-04-20 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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