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

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

doi:10.1117/12.2004269

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

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

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices II
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004269
Publication status	Published - 10 Jun 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd Symposium on Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: 3 Feb 2013 → 7 Feb 2013

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8620
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

Conference

Conference	2nd Symposium on Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco, CA
Period	3/02/13 → 7/02/13

Keywords

CIGS
GaAs
Thin film solar cell
cost reduction
high-efficiency
light-trapping
nano-imprint lithography
nano-photonic
plasmonic

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Colin, C., Massiot, I., Cattoni, A., Vandamme, N., Dupuis, C., Bardou, N., Gérard, I., Naghavi, N., Guillemoles, J. F., Pelouard, J. L., & Collin, S. (2013). Broadband light-trapping in ultra-thin nano-structured solar cells. In Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices II Article 86200C (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8620). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004269

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Broadband light-trapping in ultra-thin nano-structured solar cells. / Colin, Clément; Massiot, Inès; Cattoni, Andrea et al.
Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices II. 2013. 86200C (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8620).

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