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A non-resonant dielectric metamaterial for enhancement of thin-film solar cells

Mikhail Omelyanovich·Victor Ovchinnikov·Constantin Simovski
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Recently, we have suggested dielectric metamaterial composed as an array of submicron dielectric spheres located on top of an amorphous thin-film solar cell. We have theoretically shown that this metamaterial can decrease the reflection and simultaneously can suppress the transmission through the photovoltaic layer because it transforms the incident plane wave into a set of focused light beams. This theoretical concept has been strongly developed and experimentally confirmed in the present paper. Here we consider the metamaterial for oblique angle illumination, redesign the solar cell and present a detailed experimental study of the whole structure. In contrast to our precedent theoretical study we show that our omnidirectional light-trapping structure may operate better than the optimized flat coating obtained by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition.

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Mikhail Omelyanovich, Victor Ovchinnikov, Constantin Simovski. 2014-06-24. A non-resonant dielectric metamaterial for enhancement of thin-film solar cells. https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978%2F17%2F2%2F025102

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