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Enhancing the optical transmittance by using circular silver nanowire networks

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posted on 2024-11-02, 00:12 authored by Shouyi Xie, Zi Ouyang, Nicholas Stokes, Baohua Jia, Min GuMin Gu
The optical transmittance of the circular and square silver nanowire networks with different surrounding dielectric environments is systematically investigated. Key parameters determining the plasmonic effect of the silver nanowires are identified and compared with the change of the nanowire density, the nanowire shape, the substrate materials, and the dielectric embedding materials. The total transmittance as a function of the sheet resistance of the nanowire networks for each case is evaluated. It is revealed that while the sheet resistance of the circular nanowire networks is maintained the same as that of the square networks, the optical transmittance in the former case is increased by up to 3% for the networks on glass, 15% on Si and 13% on Si covered with a 75 nm thick SiNx layer. These results give an improved guidance on the future design of the networks for various photovoltaic applications.

History

Journal

Journal of Applied Physics

Volume

115

Number

193102

Issue

19

Start page

193102-1

End page

193102-6

Total pages

6

Publisher

A I P Publishing LLC

Place published

United States

Language

English

Copyright

© 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

Former Identifier

2006057953

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2016-01-14