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 …

Development of group III–V colloidal quantum dots for optoelectronic applications

T Kim, D Shin, M Kim, H Kim, E Cho, M Choi… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are freestanding, confinement-based energy-band-tunable
materials that enable the formation of thin-film device structures for various optoelectronic …

A comprehensive dataset of photonic features on spectral converters for energy harvesting

RAS Ferreira, SFH Correia, P Georgieva, L Fu… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Building integrated photovoltaics is a promising strategy for solar technology, in which
luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) stand out. Challenges include the development of …

Environmental Effects on the Performance of Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrators

M Siripurapu, F Meinardi, S Brovelli, F Carulli - ACS photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are all-photonic, semitransparent solar devices with
great potential in the emerging fields of building-integrated photovoltaics and agrivoltaics …

Photoluminescent Si/SiO2 Core/Shell Quantum Dots Prepared by High-Pressure Water Vapor Annealing for Solar Concentrators, Light-Emitting Devices, and …

KQ Loh, HP Andaraarachchi, VE Ferry… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As non-toxic, elementally abundant, and low-cost luminophores, silicon quantum dots (Si
QDs) suit a wide variety of applications, from luminescent devices, such as solar …

Enlarging the Stokes shift of CuInS 2 quantum dots using thiol–ene polymers for efficient large-area luminescent solar concentrators

Y Wu, J Huang, J Zang, J Zhou, C Cheng… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
CuInS2/ZnS (CIS/ZnS) quantum dots (QDs) are extensively employed as fluorophores in
luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs), due to their excellent optical properties and low …

Universal Radiative Lifetimes in the Long-Lived Luminescence of Si Quantum Dots

T Popelář, P Galář, F Matějka… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) represent a perspective light emitting material. Here, we show
that their typical long-lived photoluminescence can be fully radiative. However, despite the …

Actuality and technology prospect of using perovskite quantum dot solar cells as the photovoltaic roof

Z Li, H Wu, R Wang - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
PV architecture is the main form of low-carbon architecture, it has great significance for
realizing zero-energy buildings (ZEB) The photovoltaic (PV) roofing project is an important …

Quantifying Mie Scattering in Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Improved Performance

Y Zhang, Z Zheng, X Cao, J Song, Z Gan… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are waveguiding devices that collect solar light to
supplement photovoltaic devices. Scattering in waveguides is critical to the LSC …

Synergistically designed antireflective cover for improving wide-angle photovoltaic efficiencies

JH Kim, JW Cho, I Jeon, KT Jeong, HJ Kang… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrated that a well-designed nanopatterned cover improves photovoltaic
efficiency across a wide range of incident angles (θ). A nanopatterned cover was created …