Plasmonic Concepts for Solar Fuel Generation
Articial Photosynthesis provides a way to produce high-value chemical fuels directly from sunlight thus storing the sun's power in chemical bonds. The key idea is to mimic photosynthesis processes found in nature in "artifcial leaves". The goal is to build stand-alone devices capable of converting solar irradiation into usable chemical fuels. Several examples and techniques have been proposed. The most promising approaches are water splitting devices producing hydrogen and oxygen, and CO2 reduction to produce carbon-based fuels.
Modelling and optimizing a water splitting device is a challenging tasks as processes such as absorption and catalytic conversion have to be optimized individually and the combined system must operate at maximum effiency to make the approach viable in todays energy markets. In water splitting devices the absorber material must not only provide sufficient light absorption of the sunlight, but simultaneously act as a catalyst for the hydrogen (or oxygen) evolution reaction. The high redox potential of 1.23 V required to drive this reaction either demands complex solar cell concepts such as multi-junctions to provide enough voltage or the development of new metal oxide semiconductors. Their advantages such as earth abundance, high voltages and catalytic properties usually comes at the expense of electric and optical properties. Similar to silicon based solar cells they show imperfect light absorption. Plasmonic effects can not only enhance optical absorption by increased light scattering, but also localize electromagnetic near fields to drive surface reactions.
Plasmonics and finite element simulations. We investigate plasmonic devices and effects using finite element simulations. New promising concepts for water-to-hydrogen conversion are based on plasmonic resonances of 3D nanoparticle arrangements on catalytic surfaces. The research includes utilization of metamaterial resonances for tailored, enhanced electromagnetic near fields, allowing for increased plasmon-induced dissociation of hydrogen on noble metals.
This research is carried out in the framework of MATHEON supported by Einstein Foundation Berlin.
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Martin Hammerschmidt, Sandra Döpking, Sven Burger, Sebastian Matera | Field Heterogeneities and Their Impact on Photocatalysis: Combining Optical and Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations on the Nanoscale | J. Phys. Chem. C, Vol.124, p. 3177, 2020 (preprint available as ZIB-Report 17-20) |
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2018 |
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Duote Chen, Phillip Manley, Philipp Tockhorn, David Eisenhauer, Grit Köppel, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker, Klaus Jäger | Nanophotonic Light Management for Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells | J. Photonics Energy, Vol.8, p. 022601, 2018 |
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Klaus Jäger, Grit Köppel, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker | On accurate simulations of thin-film solar cells with a thick glass superstrate | Opt. Express, Vol.26, p. A99, 2018 |
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2017 |
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Philipp Gutsche, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas, Raquel Mäusle, Sven Burger | Chiral Nanophotonics: Theory and Simulation | Doctoral Summer School on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, ITMO University, 2017 |
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Philipp Gutsche, Raquel Mäusle, Sven Burger | Circular polarization phenomena in chiral nano-optical devices | Light, Energy and the Environment 2016, p. JW4A.4, OSA Technical Digest, 2016 |
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Victor Soltwisch, Anton Haase, Jan Wernecke, Jürgen Probst, Max Schoengen, Sven Burger, Michael Krumrey, Frank Scholze | Correlated diffuse x-ray scattering from periodically nanostructured surfaces | Phys. Rev. B, Vol.94, p. 035419, 2016 |
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Antti Lassila, M. Shpak, A. Vaigu, M. Smid, A. Velasco, A. Pokatilov, I. Fatadin, R. Ferguson, D. Robinson, T. Walbaum, Sven Burger, Mertsi Haapalainen, P. Vahimaa, H. Lukner, W. Pernice, R. Pitwon, A. Deninger, Jacques Morel, Natascia Castagna, O. Peters, H. Husu | Joint research for photonics fibres, waveguides and interconnects | Proc. Europ. Opt. Soc. Ann. Meet. 2016 (EOSAM), p. 25, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-5108-4796-5 |
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Philipp Gutsche, Raquel Mäusle, Sven Burger | Locally Enhanced and Tunable Optical Chirality in Helical Metamaterials | Photonics, Vol.3, p. 60, 2016 |
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Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Jan Pomplun, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt | Model order reduction for the time-harmonic Maxwell equation applied to complex nanostructures | Proc. SPIE, Vol.9742, p. 97420M, 2016 (preprint available as ZIB-Report 16-05) |
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Carlo Barth, Jürgen Probst, Sven Herrmann, Martin Hammerschmidt, Christiane Becker | Numerical characterization of symmetry properties for photonic crystals with hexagonal lattice | Proc. SPIE, Vol.9885, p. 988506, 2016 |
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Klaus Jäger, Martin Hammerschmidt, Grit Köppel, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker | On Accurate Simulations of Thin-Film Solar Cells With a Thick Glass Superstrate | Light, Energy and the Environment 2016, p. PM3B.5, OSA Technical Digest, 2016 |
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Martin Hammerschmidt | Optical simulation of complex nanostructured solar cells with a reduced basis method | Doctoral thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Frank Schmidt, Bernd Rech, Ralf Kornhuber (Advisors), 2016 |
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Martin Hammerschmidt, Carlo Barth, Jan Pomplun, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker, Frank Schmidt | Reconstruction of photonic crystal geometries using a reduced basis method for nonlinear outputs | Proc. SPIE, Vol.9756, p. 97561R, 2016 (preprint available as ZIB-Report 16-06) |
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Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Jan Pomplun, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt | Reduced basis method for electromagnetic scattering problem: a case study for FinFETs | Optical and Quantum Electronics, Vol.48, p. 250, 2016 (preprint available as ZIB-Report 16-10) |
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Phillip Manley | Simulation of Plasmonic Nanoparticles in Thin Film Solar Cells | Doctoral thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Martina Schmid, Frank Schmidt (Advisors), 2016 |
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Klaus Jäger, Carlo Barth, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker | Simulations of sinusoidal nanotextures for coupling light into c-Si thin-film solar cells | Opt. Express, Vol.24, p. A569, 2016 |
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Klaus Jäger, Grit Köppel, Carlo Barth, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker | Sinusoidal gratings for optimized light management in c-Si thin-film solar cells | Proc. SPIE, Vol.9898, p. 989808, 2016 |
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Carlo Barth, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker | Symmetry-Dependency of Anticrossing Phenomena in Slab-Type Photonic Crystals | Opt. Express, Vol.24, p. 10931, 2016 |
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Philipp Gutsche, Raquel Mäusle, Sven Burger | Tailoring local optical chirality in helical metamaterials | 2016 10th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, pp. 73-75, IEEE, 2016 |
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Lisa Poulikakos, Philipp Gutsche, Kevin McPeak, Sven Burger, Jens Niegemann, Christian Hafner, David Norris | The Optical Chirality Flux as a Useful Far-Field Probe of Chiral Near Fields | ACS Photonics, Vol.3, p. 1619, 2016 |
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Phillip Manley, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Martina Schmid | Design Principles for Plasmonic Nanoparticle Devices | Progress in Nonlinear Nano-Optics, Shuji Sakabe, Christoph Lienau, Rüdiger Grunwald (Eds.), Springer, Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics, pp. 223-247, 2015 |
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Carlo Barth, Klaus Jäger, Sven Burger, Martin Hammerschmidt, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker | Design of Photonic Crystals with Near-Surface Field Enhancement | Light, Energy and the Environement 2015, p. JTu5A.9, OSA Technical Digest, 2015 |
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Vitaly A. Shchukin, Nikolay Ledentsov, Jr., Jörg-R. Kropp, Gunther Steinle, Nikolay Ledentsov, Jr., Kent D. Choquette, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt | Engineering of optical modes in vertical-cavity microresonators by aperture placement: applications to single-mode and near-field lasers | Proc. SPIE, p. 93810V, Vol.9381, 2015 |
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Peter Petrik, Nitish Kumar, Miklos Fried, Bálint Fodor, György Juhász, Silvania Pereira, Sven Burger, H. Paul Urbach | Fourier ellipsometry – an ellipsometric approach to Fourier scatterometry | J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid, Vol.10, p. 15002, 2015 |
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Nikolay Ledentsov, Jr., Jörg-R. Kropp, Vitaly A. Shchukin, Gunther Steinle, Nikolay Ledentsov, Jr., Jarek P. Turkiewicz, Bo Wu, Qiu Shaofeng, Yanan Ma, Feng Zhiyong, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Christoph Caspar, Ronald Freund, Kent D. Choquette | High-speed modulation, wavelength, and mode control in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers | Proc. SPIE, p. 93810F, Vol.9381, 2015 |
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Sven Burger, Philipp Gutsche, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Jan Pomplun, Frank Schmidt, Benjamin Wohlfeil, Lin Zschiedrich | Hp-finite-elements for simulating electromagnetic fields in optical devices with rough textures | Proc. SPIE, p. 96300S, Vol.9630, 2015 |
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Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Jan Pomplun, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt | Reduced basis method for Maxwell's equations with resonance phenomena | ZIB-Report 15-37 (Proc. SPIE 9630, 96300R (2015)) |
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Emil Agcos, Bernd Bodermann, Sven Burger, Gaoliang Dai, Johannes Endres, Poul-Erik Hansen, Lars Nielson, Morten Madsen, Sebastian Heidenreich, Michael Krumrey, Bernd Loechel, Jürgen Probst, Frank Scholze, Victor Soltwisch, Matthias Wurm | Scatterometry reference standards to improve tool matching and traceability in lithographical nanomanufacturing | Proc. SPIE, p. 955610, Vol.9556, 2015 |
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Klaus Jäger, Carlo Barth, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker | Sinusoidal Nanotextures for Coupling Light into c-Si Thin-Film Solar Cells | Light, Energy and the Environement 2015, p. PTu4B.3, OSA Technical Digest, 2015 |
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Patrick Gelß, Sebastian Matera, Christof Schütte | Solving the master equation without kinetic Monte Carlo: tensor train approximations for a CO oxidation model | ZIB-Report 15-41 |
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Kevin McPeak, Christian D. van Engers, Sarah Bianchi, Aurelio Rossinelli, Lisa Poulikakos, Laetitia Bernard, Sven Herrmann, David K. Kim, Sven Burger, Mark Blome, Sriharsha V. Jayanti, David Norris | Ultraviolet Plasmonic Chirality from Colloidal Aluminum Nanoparticles Exhibiting Charge-Selective Protein Detection | Adv. Mater., Vol.27, p. 6244, 2015 |
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Christiane Becker, Philippe Wyss, David Eisenhauer, Jürgen Probst, Veit Preidel, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger | 5 x 5 cm2 silicon photonic crystal slabs on glass and plastic foil exhibiting broadband absorption and high-intensity near-fields | Sci. Rep., Vol.4, p. 5886, 2014 |
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Kevin McPeak, Christian D. van Engers, Mark Blome, Jong Hyuk Park, Sven Burger, Miguel A. Gosalvez, Ava Faridi, Yasmina Ries, Ayaskanta Sahu, David Norris | Complex Chiral Colloids and Surfaces via High-Index Off-Cut Silicon | Nano Lett., 14(5), pp. 2934-2940, 2014 |
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Samuel Wiesendanger, Thomas Bischoff, Vladislav Jovanov, Dietmar Knipp, Sven Burger, Falk Lederer, Carsten Rockstuhl | Effects of film growth modes on light trapping in silicon thin film solar cells | Appl. Phys. Lett., 104(23), p. 231103, 2014 |
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Christoph Menzel, Erik Hebestreit, Rasoul Alaee, Mohammad Albooyeh, Stefan Mühlig, Sven Burger, Carsten Rockstuhl, Constantin Simovski, Sergei Tretyakov, Falk Lederer, Thomas Pertsch | Extreme Coupling: a route towards local magnetic metamaterials | Phys. Rev. B, Vol.89, p. 155125, 2014 |
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Samuel Wiesendanger, Thomas Bischoff, Vladislav Jovanov, Dietmar Knipp, Sven Burger, Falk Lederer, Carsten Rockstuhl | Numerical investigations on the effects of film growth modes on light trapping in silicon thin film solar cells | Light, Energy and the Environment, p. PF4C.4, 2014 |
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Johannes Kaschke, Mark Blome, Sven Burger, Martin Wegener | Tapered N-helical metamaterials with three-fold rotational symmetry as improved circular polarizers | Opt. Expr., 22(17), pp. 19936-19946, 2014 |
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Christoph Menzel, Erik Hebestreit, Stefan Mühlig, Carsten Rockstuhl, Sven Burger, Falk Lederer, Thomas Pertsch | The spectral shift between near- and far-field resonances of optical nano-antennas | Opt. Expr., 22(8), pp. 9971-9982, 2014 |
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