Effect of Silver Plasmonic Layer on Cu2O/In2S3 Solar Cell

Authors

  • R. Jayakrishnan Research Center, Department of Physics, Christian College, Chengannur, Kerala-689122, India
  • Rani Abraham Department of Chemistry, Christian College, Chengannur, Kerala-689122, India
  • Desy P. Koruthu Department of Chemistry, Christian College, Chengannur, Kerala-689122, India
  • Mr. Manivarnan Department of Chemistry, Christian College, Chengannur, Kerala-689122, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15379/2408-977X.2015.02.02.3

Keywords:

Surface Plasmon Resonance, Solar cell, Thin Films, Nano particles, Flexible substrate

Abstract

Solar cell with the structure Cu/Cu2O/In2S3/Ag@NP/Ag was fabricated where the In2S3-window layer and the plasmonic Ag nano particle thin film layer were deposited using injection chemical spray pyrolysis technique. Quantum efficiency measurement of these solar cells showed improved performance in the blue region of the visible spectrum compared to their counterparts. The films with Ag nano particles exhibited surface plasmon resonance peak at 432 nm which could be assigned to plasmon resonance of Ag nano-particles. The open circuit voltage of the best solar cell is 0.65 V, with short circuit current density of 1.2 mA/cm2, fill factor 22% and efficiency 0.17 %. We conclude that the in-coupling of light by the metallic nanoparticle thin film layer into the underlying semiconductor layer resulted in improvement in electrical performance of these solar cells containing the plasmonic Ag nano particles.

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2015-12-01

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