Scale dependent performance of metallic light-trapping transparent electrodes

Optics Express
Mengdi Sun, Pieter G Kik

Abstract

The optical and electrical performance of light trapping metallic electrodes is investigated. Reflection losses from metallic contacts are shown to be dramatically reduced compared to standard metallic contacts by leveraging total internal reflection at the surface of an added dielectric cover layer. Triangular wire arrays are shown to exhibit increased performance with increasing size, whereas cylindrical wires continue to exhibit diffractive losses as their size is increased. These trends are successfully correlated with radiation patterns from individual metallic wires. Triangular metallic electrodes with a metal areal coverage of 25% are shown to enable a polarization-averaged transmittance of >90% across the wavelength range 0.46-1.1 µm for an electrode width of 2 µm, with a peak transmission of 97%, a degree of polarization of <0.2%, and a sheet resistance of 0.35 Ω/sq. A new figure of merit is introduced to evaluate the light trapping potential of surface-shaped electrodes.

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