Optical Nano-antennas for Photovoltaic and Infra-red Sensing Applications

Optical Nano-antennas for Photovoltaic and Infra-red Sensing Applications

Research Project

Objectives:

The main objectives of the project are listed below:

  • Developing new plasmonic nano structures along with proposing new array topologies by considering uniform distribution, 2D or 3D linear and gaussian distributions. Also, the proposed work aims at investigating the passivation effect of the nanoparticles by surrounding it with a thin layer of silica.
  • Testing different metaheuristics algorithms to optimize the quantum efficiency of plasmonic thin film solar cells and identifying the most suitable algorithm adopted.

Outcomes:

Publications

  • Mohamed M. Gad, Yasser M. El Batawy, Ezzeldin A. Soliman, and Mai O. Sallam. ”Analysis of plasmonic nanoparticles effects on the performance of perovskite solar cells through surface recombination and short-circuiting behaviors.”Optics Laser Technology 180 (2025): 111512.
  • Mohamed M. Gad, and M. O. Sallam, E. A. Soliman and Y. M. E. Batawy,” Enhancing the Performance of Thin Film Photovoltaic Solar Cells using Truncated Conical Nanoparticles,” 2023 International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt), Alexandria, Egypt, 2023, pp. 38-41, doi: 10.1109/ITC-Egypt58155.2023.10206344.
  • Mohamed M. Gad, Yasser M. El Batawy, Ezzeldin A. Soliman, and Mai O. Sallam. ” Bowtie-Shaped Plasmonic Nanoparticles-Enhanced Photovoltaic Anti-Reflective Coating.” In 2023 5th Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES), pp. 392-395. IEEE, 2023.