Understanding the plasmonic properties of dewetting formed Ag nanoparticles for large area solar cell applications.
The effects of substrates with technological interest for solar cell industry are examined on the plasmonic properties of Ag nanoparticles fabricated by dewetting technique. Both surface matching (boundary element) and propagator (finite difference time domain) methods are used in numerical simulations to describe plasmonic properties and to interpret experimental data. The uncertainty on the locations of nanoparticles by the substrate in experiment is explained by the simulations of various Ag nanoparticle configurations. The change in plasmon resonance due to the location of nanoparticles with respect to the substrate, interactions among them, their shapes, and sizes as well as dielectric properties of substrate are discussed theoretically and implications of these for the experiment are deliberated.
Department of Physics Bilkent University, Bilkent 06800 Ankara, Turkey.
M Can
MC
Günendi
İrem
İ
Tanyeli
Gürsoy B
GB
Akgüç
Alpan
A
Bek
Raşit
R
Turan
Oğuz
O
Gülseren
D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008027:Light; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects; D012993:Solar Energy; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017155:Wettability
D012834:Silver