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Title: Enhanced photoelectrical response of hydrogenated amorphous silicon single-nanowire solar cells by front-opening crescent design
Authors: Yang, Z
Cao, G
Shang, A
Lei, DY 
Zhang, C
Gao, P
Ye, J
Li, X
Issue Date: 2016
Source: Nanoscale research letters, 2016, v. 11, 233, p. 1-7
Abstract: We report an approach for substantially enhancing the light-trapping and photoconversion efficiency of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) single-nanowire solar cells (SNSCs) by engineering the cross section of the nanowire from circular into a front-opening crescent shape. The proposed SNSCs show a broadband and highly tunable optical absorption compared to the conventional circular counterparts under both transverse electric and transverse magnetic incidences, enabling an enhancement ratio of over 40 % in both the photocurrent density and the photoconversion efficiency in a-Si:H SNSCs with a diameter of 200 nm. We further show that the superior performance can be well maintained under a wide range of incident angle and is robust to the blunt crescent edges.
Keywords: Coupled optoelectronic simulation
Crescent
Light-trapping
Single-nanowire solar cells
Publisher: Springer
Journal: Nanoscale research letters 
ISSN: 1931-7573 (print)
1556-276X (online)
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-016-1447-0
Rights: © 2016 Yang et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
The following publication Yang, Z., Cao, G., Shang, A., Lei, D. Y., Zhang, C., Gao, P., … Li, X. (2016). Enhanced photoelectrical response of hydrogenated amorphous silicon single-nanowire solar cells by front-opening crescent design. Nanoscale Research Letters, 11, 233, 1-7 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-016-1447-0
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