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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Using a Neural Network to Improve the Optical Absorption in Halide Perovskite Layers Containing Core-Shells Silver Nanoparticles.

Michael D Nelson, Marcel Di Vece

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Michael D NelsonInterdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) and Physics Department "Aldo Pontremoli", University of Milan, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy. michael.d.nels@gmail.com.
Marcel Di VeceInterdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) and Physics Department "Aldo Pontremoli", University of Milan, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy. marcel.divece@unimi.it.ORCID 0000-0002-0041-4348

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Core-shells metallic nanoparticles have the advantage of possessing two plasmon resonances, one in the visible and one in the infrared part of the spectrum. This special property is used in this work to enhance the efficiency of thin film solar cells by improving the optical absorption at both wavelength ranges simultaneously by using a neural network. Although many thin-film solar cell compositions can benefit from such a design, in this work, different silver core-shell configurations were explored inside a Halide Perovskite (CH₃NH₃PbI₃) thin film. Because the number of potential configurations is infinite, only a limited number of finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations were performed. A neural network was then trained with the simulation results to find the core-shells configurations with optimal optical absorption across different wavelength ranges. This demonstrates that core-shells nanoparticles can make an important contribution to improving solar cell performance and that neural networks can be used to find optimal results in such nanophotonic systems.

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core-shellslight managementmachine learningnanoparticlesneural networkperovskiteplasmonicssilver 7solar cellthin films

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PMID30875956
PMCPMC6474077

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