Theoretical study on waveguide solar cell containing nanoparticles

A novel waveguide structure containing nanoparticles and different cover media has been proposed to find out the transmission and reflections of the incident light on the proposed structure. The Transfer matrix method has been applied to study the transverse magnetic TM waves at an Antireflection (AR) coating structure for silicon solar cells with a nanoparticles-dielectric layer. The transmission and reflection coefficients have been derived at different incident angles and for various nanoparticle’s materials in wavelength region between 300 nm and 1200nm. The numerical results, obtained by MAPLE software, highlighted an enhancement of the transmission coefficient by different cover media. References: 1. D. M. El-Amassi, H. J. El-Khozondar and M. M. Shabat, Int. J. of Nano Studies and Technology, 4(2), 84-87, 2015. 2. S. Pillai and M. A. Green, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 94, 1481-1486, 2010. 3. M. M. Shabat, and M. F. Ubeid, Energy Procedia, Vol. 50, 314-321, 2014. 4. S. I. Park and Y. J. Lee, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 32, No. 5, May 1998, pp. 676_680