Luminescent solar concentrators for building integrated photovoltaics: opportunities and challenges

BS Richards, IA Howard - Energy & Environmental Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This review examines the application of luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) for building
integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), both in terms of opaque façade elements and as semi …

Luminescent solar concentrators for building-integrated photovoltaics

F Meinardi, F Bruni, S Brovelli - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
The transition to fully energetically sustainable architecture through the realization of so-
called net zero-energy buildings is currently in progress in areas with low population …

An overview of various configurations of Luminescent Solar Concentrators for photovoltaic applications

M Rafiee, S Chandra, H Ahmed, SJ McCormack - Optical Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract A Luminescent Solar Concentrator (LSC) is an optical waveguide of transparent
host material doped with luminophores. LSC technology works by trapping incident solar …

Laboratory protocols for measuring and reporting the performance of luminescent solar concentrators

MG Debije, RC Evans, G Griffini - Energy & Environmental Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) show great potential for both broadening the
spectral response of photovoltaic devices and facilitating their deployment in urban …

Achieving high-efficiency large-area luminescent solar concentrators

M Cao, X Zhao, X Gong - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are semitransparent windows that are able to
generate electricity from sunlight absorption. LSCs have shown huge promise for realizing …

Luminescent solar concentrators: From experimental validation of 3D ray-tracing simulations to coloured stained-glass windows for BIPV

A Kerrouche, DA Hardy, D Ross, BS Richards - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSC) are a promising technology for building integrated
photovoltaics (BIPV) given the wide variety of forms and colours that can be realised. Given …

Spectral converters for photovoltaics–What's ahead

RAS Ferreira, SFH Correia, A Monguzzi, X Liu… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
The effective incorporation of photovoltaic (PV) elements into the urban environment,
specifically in buildings, is a challenging process. Apart from the aesthetic limitations of …

Luminescent solar concentrators–A low cost photovoltaics alternative

W Van Sark - EPJ Web of Conferences, 2012 - epj-conferences.org
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are being developed as a potentially low cost-per-
Wp photovoltaic device, suited for applications especially in the built environment. LSCs …

Limits of visibly transparent luminescent solar concentrators

C Yang, RR Lunt - Advanced Optical Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Visibly transparent solar harvesting surfaces are an exciting new approach to harvesting
solar energy around buildings and mobile electronics to improve their efficiency and …

Tandem luminescent solar concentrators based on engineered quantum dots

K Wu, H Li, VI Klimov - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) can serve as large-area sunlight collectors for
terrestrial and space-based photovoltaics. Due to their high emission efficiencies and readily …