Electromagnetic Response and Optical Properties of Spherical CuSbS2 Nanoparticles

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2021 Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2021 - Proceedings, pp. 2573-2578, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium ; Volume 2021-November

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We study the electromagnetic response of individual spherical copper antimony disulfide (CuSbS {2}) nanoparticles and layers embedded with them for solar applications and near infrared (NIR) sensors using computational methods. We first calculate the single particle scattering and absorption efficiencies using Lorenz-Mie theory. The absorption and the total scattering efficiencies broaden and shift to longer wavelengths with increasing particle radius from 1 to 100 nm. We further investigate the response of multiple nanoparticles embedded in a thin layer at a low volume fraction using a Monte Carlo method. Our results demonstrate that with increasing particle size and scattering NIR transmittance is strongly suppressed and absorption and reflectance enhanced. The high absorption coefficient and solar-compatible band gap of CuSbS2 make it a good candidate for nanocrystalline solar cell and other NIR device applications.

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Funding Information: This work was performed as part of the Academy of Finland project 314488 and QTF Centre of Excellence program (project 312298). We acknowledge computational resources provided by CSC — IT Center for Science (Finland) and by the Aalto Science-IT project (Aalto University School of Science). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 IEEE.

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Seyedheydari, F, Conley, K, Yla-Oijala, P, Sihvola, A & Ala-Nissila, T 2021, Electromagnetic Response and Optical Properties of Spherical CuSbS 2 Nanoparticles. in 2021 Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2021 - Proceedings. Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, vol. 2021-November, IEEE, pp. 2573-2578, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Hangzhou, China, 21/11/2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/PIERS53385.2021.9694781