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Antireflective Huygens’ Metasurface with Correlated Disorder Made from High-Index Disks Implemented into Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Piechulla, Peter M.; Slivina, Evgeniia; Bätzner, Derk; Fernandez-Corbaton, Ivan ORCID iD icon; Dhawan, Prerak; Wehrspohn, Ralf B.; Sprafke, Alexander N.; Rockstuhl, Carsten

Abstract:

A large variety of different strategies has been proposed as alternatives to random textures to improve light coupling into solar cells. While the understanding of dedicated nanophotonic systems deepens continuously, only a few of the proposed designs are industrially accepted due to a lack of scalability. In this Article, a tailored disordered arrangement of high-index dielectric submicron-sized titanium dioxide (TiO$_{2}$) disks is experimentally exploited as an antireflective Huygens’ metasurface for standard heterojunction silicon solar cells. The disordered array is fabricated using a scalable bottom-up technique based on colloidal self-assembly that is applicable virtually irrespective of material or surface morphology of the device. We observe a broadband reduction of reflectance resulting in a relative improvement of a short-circuit current by 5.1% compared to a reference cell with an optimized flat antireflective indium tin oxide (ITO) layer. A theoretical model based on Born’s first approximation is proposed that links the current increase in the arrangement of disks expressed in terms of the structure factor S(q) of the disk array. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000140545
Veröffentlicht am 03.12.2021
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DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00601
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Zitationen: 20
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Nanotechnologie (INT)
Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik (TFP)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2330-4022
KITopen-ID: 1000140545
HGF-Programm 43.32.02 (POF IV, LK 01) Designed Optical Materials
Erschienen in ACS Photonics
Verlag American Chemical Society (ACS)
Band 8
Heft 12
Seiten 3476–3485
Nachgewiesen in Web of Science
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