Lükermann, Florian: Plasmon supported defect absorption in amorphous silicon thin film solar cells and devices. 2013
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Kurzzusammenfassung
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Fundamentals
- Solar Cells - Fundamental Principles
- Solar Spectral Radiation
- Electronic states in semiconductors
- Spectral Loss Mechanisms in Solar Cells
- Recombination of Charge Carriers
- Solar Cell Dark Current Characteristics
- Solar Cell Characteristics Under Illumination
- Solar Cell Parameters
- Impurity Photovoltaic Effect
- Thin Film Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells
- Structural and Electronic Properties of a-Si:H
- Optical Properties of a-Si:H
- a-Si:H Solar Cell Devices
- Thin Film Deposition
- Metal Nanoparticles and Localized Surface Plasmons
- Experimental Methods
- Deposition Techniques
- Characterization Methods
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Transmission Electron Microscopy
- Atomic Force Microscopy
- Measurement of Layer Thickness
- Sheet Resistance Measurement
- Optical Spectroscopy - UV/Vis/NIR
- X-Ray Diffraction
- Dark Conductivity Measurements
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Solar Cell Characterization
- Summary
- Analysis of Ag NP films
- Ag NPs in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cell Devices
- Basic Device Design
- Influence of Ag NPs on electrical device properties
- Influence of Ag NPs on the Spectral Response of a-Si:H Devices
- Origin of participating inner gap states
- Ag NPs Embedded in ZnO
- Ag NPs Embedded in Amorphous Silicon
- Ag NPs Inside the Intrinsic Layer of a-Si:H n-i-p Devices
- Modified Model for the Ag NP Induced Sub-Bandgap Response
- Influencing Circumstances on Plasmon Enhanced Defect Absorption
- Influence of Extracting Field
- Influence of Particle Size on Sub-Bandgap Response
- Influence of the Fermi Level on Sub-Bandgap Response
- Influence of Oxidation and Post NP Processing - Choice of Deposition Sequence
- Ag NPs in µc-Si:H Devices
- Ag NP Induced Losses in the a-Si:H Strong Absorption Regime
- Summary
- Conclusions
- Appendix
- Appendix
- Development of Thin Film Sputter Deposition on Large Area Substrates
- Development of a Laboratory UHV Multi-Chamber Sputter System
- Bibliography
- Publications related to this work
- Conference contributions
- Curriculum Vitae (Lebenslauf)
- Acknowledgments (Danksagung)