Project Results

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Plasmonic Photovoltaics Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water Molecular Solar Cells Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Electricity Distribution & Infrastructure Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Projects All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports Solicitations

Research

Results and Publications

Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells

September 2005 - August 2008 (completed)

Investigators

Mark Brongersma, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Peter Peumans and Shanhui Fan, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Annual Reports

Publications

S. Fujimori, R. Dinyari, J.-Y. Lee and P. Peumans, "Plasmonic light concentration in organic solar cells," accepted in Nanoletters 2009.
S. Fujimori, R. Dinyari and P. Peumans, "Electrically-assisted aerosol deposition of metal nanoparticles," in preparation 2009.
P. B. Catrysse and S. Fan, Connecting the dispersion of the coaxial plasmonic structure and the planar metal-insulator-metal geomtry, Appl. Phys. Lett., submitted 2009.
J.-Y. Lee and P. Peumans, “The origin of enhanced optical absorption in plasmonic solar cells with spherical metal nanoparticles,” submitted 2009.
M. Agrawal and P. Peumans, “The limits to light trapping in the sub-wavelength optical domain,” submitted 2009.
M. Agrawal and P. Peumans, “A very efficient light harvesting scheme for thinfilm photovoltaics,” submitted 2009.
Barnard, E. S., J. S. White, A. Chandran, and M. L. Brongersma. “Spectral properties of plasmonic resonator antennas.” Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 21, pp. 16529-16537, doi:10.1364/OE.16.016529 (2008).
P. B. Catrysse and S. Fan, “Near-complete transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays in phonon-polariton thin films”, Physical Review B 75, 075422 (2007).
P. B. Catrysse and S. Fan, Enlarging the bandwidth of nanoscale propagating plasmonic modes in deep sub-wavelength cylindrical holes, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91:18, 181118 (2007).
P. B. Catrysse and S. Fan, Propagating plasmonic modes and its implications for extraordinary transmission, J. Nanophotonics 2, 021790 (2008). (Invited paper)
S. Fujimori, R. Dinyari, J.-Y. Lee and P. Peumans, "Plasmonic light concentration in organic solar cells," accepted in Nanoletters.
S. Fujimori, R. Dinyari and P. Peumans, "Electrically-assisted aerosol deposition of metal nanoparticles," in preparation.
Edward S. Barnard, Justin S. White, Anu Chandran, and Mark L. Brongersma, "A Fabry-Perot model for plasmonics antennas," in preparation.

Updated February 2011