Silver Nanoparticle Research for Plasmonic Solar Cell

Abstract

Environmental concerns and limitation of fossil fuels have motivated the researchers to explore green energy as the solution to the energy crisis in the modern era. Solar energy is the most widely available and potential source of green energy. Solar cells or photovoltaic cells are semiconductor transducers that convert the solar energy into useful electrical energy. Inside the solar cells, absorption of photon energy leads to electron-hole pair generation then the generated charge carriers contribute as the useful photocurrent by the solar cell. We demonstrate that how shape and size of the silver nanoparticle changes by changing their precursor concentration. We demonstrate how these findings will promise in the design of ultrathin film plasmonicsolar cell.