Analysis and Simulation of Influence of The Silver Ribbon Nanoparticle’s Dimensions and Refractive Index on The Efficiency of Plasmonic Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell

In this paper, the effects of silver ribbon nanoparticle dimensions and the refractive index of the environment on silicon solar cell performance are investigated and analyzed. By changing the dimensions of nanoparticles and altering the refractive index, important parameters such as efficiency are simulated with finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Also, the solar cell performance is investigated with and without nanoparticles. By changing the nanoparticle dimensions, the optimum case to achieve maximum efficiency is obtained. The influence of changes in refractive index of the environment from 1 (air) to 1.6 on the performance of the solar cells and the coupling profile are also studied. The simulation results reveal that the efficiency of 12.45 is obtained by selecting a refractive index of 1.2.