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 …

Spectroscopic and device aspects of nanocrystal quantum dots

JM Pietryga, YS Park, J Lim, AF Fidler, WK Bae… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The field of nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) is already more than 30 years old, and yet
continuing interest in these structures is driven by both the fascinating physics emerging …

Thirty years of luminescent solar concentrator research: solar energy for the built environment

MG Debije, PPC Verbunt - Advanced Energy Materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Research on the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) over the past thirty‐odd years is
reviewed. The LSC is a simple device at its heart, employing a polymeric or glass …

High-brightness polarized light-emitting diodes

E Matioli, S Brinkley, KM Kelchner, YL Hu… - Light: Science & …, 2012 - nature.com
Light-emitting diodes are becoming the alternative for future general lighting applications,
with huge energy savings compared to conventional light sources owing to their high …

Quantum dots for luminescent solar concentrators

F Purcell-Milton, YK Gun'ko - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a great need for solar cell based energy resources due to the rapid growth in price
of fossil fuels and the great danger of increasing greenhouse effect caused by carbon …

Luminescent solar concentrators: challenges for lanthanide-based organic–inorganic hybrid materials

SFH Correia, V de Zea Bermudez… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are devices comprising a transparent matrix
embedding optically active centres that absorb the incident radiation, which is re-emitted at a …

Tandem structured luminescent solar concentrator based on inorganic carbon quantum dots and organic dyes

F Mateen, M Ali, SY Lee, SH Jeong, MJ Ko, SK Hong - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, we demonstrate the simultaneous use of carbon quantum dots and organic
dyes as highly emissive luminescent material in high performance tandem luminescent solar …

Multistate luminescent solar concentrator “smart” windows

JAHP Sol, GH Timmermans… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A supertwist liquid crystalline luminescent solar concentrator (LSC)“smart” window is
fabricated which can be switched electrically between three states: one designed for …

[HTML][HTML] Losses in luminescent solar concentrators unveiled

C Tummeltshammer, A Taylor, AJ Kenyon… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
A novel experimental method is presented to determine the optical efficiency and the loss
channels of a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC). Despite strong promise, LSCs have not …

Luminescent solar concentrator employing rare earth complex with zero self-absorption loss

T Wang, J Zhang, W Ma, Y Luo, L Wang, Z Hu, W Wu… - Solar Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) employing Eu (TTA) 3 (TPPO) 2 (europium tris (2-
thenoyl trifluoro acetonate)-di (triphenylphosphine oxide)) was fabricated in our work firstly …