Harnessing the properties of colloidal quantum dots in luminescent solar concentrators

Y Zhou, H Zhao, D Ma, F Rosei - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) can serve as large-area sunlight collectors, are
suitable for applications in high-efficiency and cost-effective photovoltaics (PVs), and …

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 …

Zero-reabsorption doped-nanocrystal luminescent solar concentrators

CS Erickson, LR Bradshaw, S McDowall… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Optical concentration can lower the cost of solar energy conversion by reducing photovoltaic
cell area and increasing photovoltaic efficiency. Luminescent solar concentrators offer an …

Near infrared, highly efficient luminescent solar concentrators

Y Zhou, D Benetti, Z Fan, H Zhao, D Ma… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The fabrication of a low reabsorption emission loss, high efficient luminescent solar
concentrator (LSC) is demonstrated by embedding near infrared (NIR) core/shell quantum …

Reprogrammable 4D Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Photoactuators by Means of Light‐Reversible Perylene Diimide Radicals

L Montesino, JI Martínez… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reconfigurable soft actuators can be programmed to morph into different 3D shapes under
the same stimulus exhibiting great potential for adaptive robotic functionalities. Liquid …

A critical analysis of luminescent solar concentrator terminology and efficiency results

T Warner, KP Ghiggino, G Rosengarten - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent efforts to synchronise laboratory protocols for measuring luminescent solar
concentrator (LSC) efficiencies, and to use consistent terminology, has been driven by a …

Perovskite nanocrystals: Opportunities in luminescent solar concentrators

L Jin, GS Selopal, X Liu, D Benetti… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are complementary sunlight collectors for
photovoltaics (PVs). Emissive fluorophores embedded in a transparent waveguide collect …

[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 …

A low reabsorbing luminescent solar concentrator employing π-conjugated polymers

GD Gutierrez, I Coropceanu, MG Bawendi, TM Swager - 2015 - dspace.mit.edu
A highly efficient thin-film luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) utilizing two π-conjugated
polymers as antennae for small amounts of the valued perylene bisimide Lumogen F Red …

Tuning the color and photostability of perylene diimides inside polymer nanoparticles: towards biodegradable substitutes of quantum dots

K Trofymchuk, A Reisch, I Shulov, Y Mély… - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent organic nanoparticles (NPs) are attractive alternatives to quantum dots due to
their potential biodegradability. However, preparation of fluorescent organic NPs is …