Surface-plasmon-induced photoabsorption of Ag nanoparticle embedded a-Si solar cell

Effect of silver film thickness on the surface plasma resonance in the rectangular Ag-Si-SiO2 cavity

“…As efficient and low cost effective noble metal nanomaterials (NMs), Ag NMs are considered as one of the most promising functional materials in electronic, chemical, bio-logical, solar cells and catalytic field [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. In recent years, research on the surface plasma of silver/Si is very popular with researchers [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], such as submonolayer silver loss [17], photo absorption [18], fiber optic ethanol sensor [19], the blue light phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes [20], electron energy-loss spectroscopy [21], photoluminescence in the plasma coupling of the silvered silicon quantum dots [22] and surface plasma resonance [23,24]. Plasma with siliconbased silver chips for protein and nucleic acid assay can enhance fluorescence imaging [25].…”