Absorption enhancement in hexagonal plasmonic solar cell

Abstract

In this paper, a novel design of hexagonal cylindrical plasmonic solar cell (HC-PSC) is investigated and analysed by using 3D finite difference time domain method. The aim of our work is to get maximum absorption of thin film solar cell by scattering the light from metal nanoparticles. Therefore the effects of the structure geometrical parameters on the absorption are investigated. The numerical results show around 35% absorption improvement compared to the conventional thin film solar cell without metal nanoparticles.