Surface plasmon-enhanced photovoltaic device

Kostecki, Robert; Mao, Samuel

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Title: Surface plasmon-enhanced photovoltaic device

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Photovoltaic devices are driven by intense photoemission of "hot" electrons from a suitable nanostructured metal. The metal should be an electron source with surface plasmon resonance within the visible and near-visible spectrum range (near IR to near UV (about 300 to 1000 nm)). Suitable metals include silver, gold, copper and alloys of silver, gold and copper with each other. Silver is particularly preferred for its advantageous opto-electronic properties in the near UV and visible spectrum range, relatively low cost, and simplicity of processing.

Inventors:: Kostecki, Robert; Mao, Samuel

Issue Date:: 2014-10-07

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1160133

Patent Number(s):: 8853526

Application Number:: 12/663,503

Assignee:: The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, CA)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B82 - NANOTECHNOLOGY B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES

H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B82 - NANOTECHNOLOGY B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES
B82Y10/00 - Nanotechnology for information processing, storage or transmission, e.g. quantum computing or single electron logic

H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
H01L31/035281 - {Shape of the body}
H01L31/03529 - {Shape of the potential jump barrier or surface barrier}
H01L31/07 - the potential barriers being only of the Schottky type
H01L31/1085 - {the devices being of the Metal-Semiconductor-Metal [MSM] Schottky barrier type}

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
Y02E10/50 - Photovoltaic [PV] energy

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DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2008 Jul 17

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY

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Apparatus and method for photovoltaic energy production based on internal charge emission in a solid-state heterostructure patent-application, January 2003

Self-assembly methods for the fabrication of McFarland-Tang photovoltaic devices patent-application, January 2005

A photovoltaic device structure based on internal electron emission journal, February 2003

Effect of the surface roughness on the spectral distribution of photoemission current at the silver/solution contact journal, May 1995

Nanolasers: lasing from nanoscale quantum wires journal, January 2004

Electron Flow Generated by Gas Phase Exothermic Catalytic Reactions Using a Platinum−Gallium Nitride Nanodiode journal, April 2005

The Catalytic Nanodiode: Gas Phase Catalytic Reaction Generated Electron Flow Using Nanoscale Platinum Titanium Oxide Schottky Diodes journal, April 2005

Photoemission from multiply excited surface plasmons in Ag nanoparticles journal, November 2000

Apparatus and method for photovoltaic energy production based on internal charge emission in a solid-state heterostructure
patent-application, January 2003

Self-assembly methods for the fabrication of McFarland-Tang photovoltaic devices
patent-application, January 2005

A photovoltaic device structure based on internal electron emission
journal, February 2003

Effect of the surface roughness on the spectral distribution of photoemission current at the silver/solution contact
journal, May 1995

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journal, January 2004

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journal, April 2005

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journal, November 2000