Metal nanostructures for solar cells

Gallium nanoparticles as antireflection structures on III-V solar cells

“…In spite of the great effort made by the scientific community on the multilayer ARCs, solar cells still do not collect sufficient light to produce the current expected by the SQ formalism [2]. In recent times, the use of nanostructures has gained a lot of attention to better couple the light into the solar cells [12][13][14][15][16]. The concept is based on the fact that when a nanostructure is placed close to the interface between two dielectrics, the light will scatter preferentially into the dielectric with the larger permittivity [17].…”