Luminescent solar collectors: quo vadis?

J Roncali - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are optical systems that absorb, convert, and
concentrate solar light by means of photoluminescence of an emitting material embedded in …

Agrivoltaics in Ontario Canada: promise and policy

JM Pearce - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Well-intentioned regulations to protect Canada's most productive farmland restrict large-
scale solar photovoltaic (PV) development. The recent innovation of agrivoltaics, which is …

Red-emissive carbon quantum dots enable high efficiency luminescent solar concentrators

G Liu, M Zavelani-Rossi, G Han, H Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are large-area sunlight collectors for efficient solar-
to-electricity conversion. The key point for highly efficient LSCs is the choice of fluorophores …

Bandwidth limits of luminescent solar concentrators as detectors in free-space optical communication systems

M Portnoi, PA Haigh, TJ Macdonald, F Ambroz… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) have recently emerged as a promising receiver
technology in free-space optical communications due to their inherent ability to collect light …

Increasing greenhouse production by spectral-shifting and unidirectional light-extracting photonics

L Shen, R Lou, Y Park, Y Guo, EJ Stallknecht, Y Xiao… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Improving photosynthesis and light capture increases crop yield and paves a sustainable
way to meet the growing global food demand. Here we introduce a spectral-shifting …

The agrivoltaic potential of Canada

U Jamil, A Bonnington, JM Pearce - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Canada has committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by increasing the non-
emitting share of electricity generation to 90% by 2030. As solar energy costs have …

Polymerization and applications of poly (methyl methacrylate)–graphene oxide nanocomposites: a review

MN Ahamad Said, NA Hasbullah, MRH Rosdi… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Graphene oxide (GO)-incorporated poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) nanocomposites
(PMMA-GO) have demonstrated a wide range of outstanding mechanical, electrical, and …

Energy Policy for Agrivoltaics in Alberta Canada

U Jamil, JM Pearce - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
As Alberta increases conventional solar power generation, land-use conflicts with
agriculture increase. A solution that enables low-carbon electricity generation and continued …

Micro cracks distribution and power degradation of polycrystalline solar cells wafer: Observations constructed from the analysis of 4000 samples

M Dhimish - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the impact of Photovoltaic (PV) micro cracks is assessed through the analysis
of 4000 polycrystalline silicon solar cells. The inspection of the cracks has been carried out …

Parametric open source cold-frame agrivoltaic systems

JM Pearce - Inventions, 2021 - mdpi.com
There is an intense need to optimize agrivoltaic systems. This article describes the invention
of a new testing system: the parametric open source cold-frame agrivoltaic system …