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The synthesis and some optical absorption investigation of the dual combined glass/FTO/a-Si/Au NPs/Au NPs@TiO2 plasmonic structure

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This paper reports the synthesis method by sputtered technique for Silicon and Au different thicknesses layers onto glass/FTO substrate, after that the thermal annealing, and then using sol–gel method producing AuNPs@TiO2 plasmonic structure to produce four sample groups: Glass/FTO/AuNPs; glass/FTO/AuNPs/AuNPs@TiO2, glass/FTO/a-Si/AuNPs, and dual combined glass/FTO/a-Si/Au NPs/AuNPs@TiO2 configurations. After thermal annealing, the sputtered Si layer on glass/FTO has amorphous phase (a-Si), sputtered Au layer has crystallized phase in (111) direction and TiO2 has anatase phase. Some optical measurements have investigated such as the transmission, reflection and the absorption measurements were carried out for different sample groups in comparison for choosing the sample group having the highest optical absorption spectrum aiming for application in the modified plasmonic solar cell. The optical absorption of the dual combined glass/FTO/a-Si/AuNPs/AuNPs@TiO2 configuration were significantly enhanced in ultraviolet, visible and near infrared regions with plasmonic resonance peaks shifted depending on Au NPs sizes and a-Si layer thicknesses. This result can be explained by the effects of the dual combined plasmonic structure where the partial /a-Si/Au NPs plasmonic structure has plasmonic resonance around 610 nm with enhanced tail cover to 800 nm, and the partial AuNPs@TiO2 plasmonic structure has plasmonic resonance around 510 nm. The dual combined glass/FTO/a–Si/Au NPs/Au NPs@TiO2 configuration with enhanced absorption spectrum in a wide range that is proposed for applying in the modified plasmonic solar cell for performance enhancement.

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This research is done in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Research (ITAR), Duy Tan University Hanoi and in Institute of Materials Science (IMS), VAST Hanoi. The authors express their thanks for supporting facilities to carry out this work. Authors thank to Assoc. Prof, Le Van Vu and PhD. Nguyen Duy Thien who have taken part in calculation of Au Sizes and in the discussion measurement of reflectance spectra for samples.

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    Khac An Dao

  2. Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam

    Khac An Dao

  3. Institute of Materials Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Cau Giay, Hanoi, 100000, Vietnam

    Tien Thanh Nguyen

  4. Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, 18 Pho Vien, Duc Thang, Bac Tu Liem, Hanoi, 100000, Vietnam

    Nguyen Xuan Chung

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KADAO is project leader, conceptualization, analyzing data, writing paper, drawing pictures, final revision. TTN: doing experiments, measurements, and analysis of the experimental data. NXC: analyzing data, manuscript reading, revising.

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Dao, K.A., Nguyen, T.T. & Chung, N.X. The synthesis and some optical absorption investigation of the dual combined glass/FTO/a-Si/Au NPs/Au NPs@TiO2 plasmonic structure. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 282 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-09676-7

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