Plasmonic effects for light concentration in organic photovoltaic thin films induced by hexagonal periodic metallic nanospheres

We present a plasmonic nanostructure design by embedding a layer of hexagonal periodic metallic nanospheres between the active layer and transparent anode for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. The hybrid structure shows broadband optical absorption enhancement from localized surface plasmon resonance with a weak dependence on polarization of incident light. We also theoretically study the optimization of the design to enhance the absorption up to 1.90 times for a typical hybrid active layer based on a low band gap material.

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