Plasmonic quantum dot solar cells for enhanced infrared response

Hao Feng Lu; Sudha Mokkapati; Lan Fu; Greg Jolley; Hark Hoe Tan; Chennupati Jagadish

doi:10.1063/1.3691917

Plasmonic quantum dot solar cells for enhanced infrared response

Hao Feng Lu^*, Sudha Mokkapati, Lan Fu, Greg Jolley, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish

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Enhanced near infrared photoresponse in plasmonic InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells (QDSC) is demonstrated. Long wavelength light absorption in the wetting-layer and quantum-dot region of the quantum dot solar cell is enhanced through scattering of light by silver nanoparticles deposited on the solar cell surface. Plasmonic light trapping results in simultaneous increase in short-circuit current density by 5.3 and open circuit voltage by 0.9 in the QDSC, leading to an overall efficiency enhancement of 7.6.

Original language	English
Article number	103505
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	100
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3691917
Publication status	Published - 5 Mar 2012

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