Browsing by Subject "Photovoltaic devices"
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Item Open Access Plasmonically enhanced hot electron based photovoltaic device(Optical Society of American (OSA), 2013) Atar F.B.; Battal, E.; Aygun L.E.; Daglar, B.; Bayındır, Mehmet; Okyay, Ali KemalHot electron photovoltaics is emerging as a candidate for low cost and ultra thin solar cells. Plasmonic means can be utilized to significantly boost device efficiency. We separately form the tunneling metal-insulator-metal (MIM) junction for electron collection and the plasmon exciting MIM structure on top of each other, which provides high flexibility in plasmonic design and tunneling MIM design separately. We demonstrate close to one order of magnitude enhancement in the short circuit current at the resonance wavelengths. © 2013 Optical Society of America.Item Open Access Semiconductor-less photovoltaic device(IEEE, 2013) Atar, Fatih B.; Battal, Enes; Aygun, Levent E.; Dağlar, Bihter; Bayındır, Mehmet; Okyay, Ali KemalWe demonstrate a novel semiconductor-less photovoltaic device and investigate the plasmonic effects on this device structure. The device is made of metal and dielectric layers and the operation is based on hot carrier collection. We present the use of surface plasmons to improve energy conversion efficiency. The field localization provided by surface plasmons confine the incident light in the metal layer, increasing the optical absorption and hot electron generation rate inside the metal layer. The device consists of two tandem MIM (metal-insulator-metal) junctions. Bottom MIM junction acts as a rectifying diode and top MIM junction is used to excite surface plasmons. The device operation principle as well as the topology will be discussed in detail. © 2013 IEEE.Item Open Access Strongly Scale-Dependent Charge Transport From Interconnections of Silicon Quantum Dots and Nanowires(Cambridge University Press, 2017) Ilday, S.We present the first characterization of strongly scale-dependent charge transport of a unique, hierarchical complex topology: an interconnected random network of silicon quantum dots (QDs) and nanowires. We show that this specific topology has different charge transport characteristics on the nanoscale and the microscale: photogenerated charge carriers tend to be confined inside the QDs and externally injected charge carriers flow preferably along the nanowires. The former enables expression of quantum confinement properties, and the latter mainly contributes to the good electrical conduction on the microscale. Our findings strongly suggest that this multifunctionality can be controlled and used in photovoltaic device applications.Item Open Access Triangular metallic gratings for high efficiency thin film solar cells(IEEE, 2011) Battal, Enes; Yoǧurt, Alper Taha; Aygun, Levent Erdal; Okyay, Ali KemalOur design of novel nanometallic structure integrated with photovoltaic devices provides polarization insensitive, broadband and significantly high absorptivity enhancement. This structure attains absorptivities higher than compared to similar thickness of Silicon solar cells with gratings. © 2011 IEEE.