Colloidal Self-assembled Nanosphere Arrays for Plasmon-enhanced Light Trapping in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

Colloidal MNPs are synthesized with spherical shapes, so their scattering properties are analytically modeled with Mie theory. Such formalism allowed the computation of the preferential MNP sizes that provide the best scattering performance for light-trapping in amorphous and microcrystalline thin-film silicon solar cells.