Plasmonic Solar Cell Simulation

I’m working on an inorganic solar-cell design that relies on a gold-based plasmonic layer, and I want a detailed FDTD Solutions study that shows exactly how much that layer pushes performance.

The brief is three-fold: quantify light-absorption enhancement across the active spectrum, track the resulting carrier dynamics, and translate both of those findings into a clear overall-efficiency figure. Everything has to be modeled in FDTD Solutions; please keep the setup reproducible so I can rerun or tweak parameters later.

What I’ll need from you:
• The complete FDTD project file with all geometry, boundary, and material settings for the gold nanostructure and the underlying inorganic absorber stack.
• A concise report (figures plus commentary) comparing the baseline cell with and without the plasmonic layer, highlighting absorption spectra, carrier-generation profiles, and the final efficiency calculation.
• A short README that walks me through re-running the simulation and adjusting key dimensions or material properties.

If you’re comfortable optimizing gold nanostructures for optical hot-spot formation and can present results in a format ready for publication or further device simulation, let’s get started.