Photoenergy Conversion Systems and Materials for the Next Generation solar cells

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  • Musubu Ichikawa
  • Hideo Ohkita
  • Keisuke Ohdaira
  • Koichi Okamoto
  • Akinori Saeki
  • Qing Shen
  • Tetsuya Taima
  • Yasuhiro Tachibana
  • Setsuhisa Tanabe
  • Takeshi Tayagaki
  • Donglin Jiang
  • Yoshitaro Nose
  • Kazuhiro Marumoto
  • Hiroyuki Yoshida

High-Efficient and Ultra-Thin Solar Cells using Plasmonics

Koichi Okamoto

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Associate Professor, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University

URL http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/university/information/ins_chem.php

Abstract

Photovoltaics have attracted a great deal of attention as a new energy source instead of fossil resource which is going to be exhausted. This research project aims to achieve dramatic improvements of photoelectric conversion efficiencies and reductions of costs by thinner solar cells by using new approach based on plasmonics. Recently applications of plasmonics to solar cells have received much attention and are expected for practical use. We are going to realize a first practical use of plasmonic solar cells by using our original technique which we developed to enhance light emission efficiencies by plasmonics.