Red and yellow emissive carbon dots integrated tandem luminescent solar concentrators with significantly improved efficiency

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiurong Li ◽  
Haiguang Zhao ◽  
Xiujian Zhao ◽  
Xiao Gong

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) can collect solar light from a large area and concentrate it to their small-area edges mounted with solar cells for efficient solar-to-electricity conversion. Thus, LSCs show...

Author(s):  
Rahul Bose ◽  
Keith W. J. Barnham ◽  
Amanda J. Chatten

Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) offer a way of making Photovoltaic (PV) systems more attractive through reduced energy costs, the possibility of application in cloudy regions, and improved building integration. LSCs collect light over a large area and concentrate it, both spatially and spectrally, onto solar cells at the edges of the device, such that the total cell area required to generate a specific power is reduced. Since the solar cells constitute the more expensive component in the system, this leads to cost reductions. Unlike conventional geometric concentrators, LSCs do not require solar tracking and can collect diffuse as well as direct sunlight. The current research challenges lie in increasing the efficiency of the LSC and extending it to larger areas to make it commercially viable. In this chapter, the authors outline the mode of operation of the LSC, with particular regard to cost considerations and device geometry. They then review recent approaches aiming to increase device efficiency and, finally, introduce their versatile raytrace approach to modelling the LSC. The model is utilised here to investigate tapered LSC designs and rationalise the optimal geometry and configuration for planar LSCs.


Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (46) ◽  
pp. 23537-23545
Author(s):  
Hsiu-Ying Huang ◽  
Maria Jessabel Talite ◽  
Kun-Bin Cai ◽  
Ruth Jeane Soebroto ◽  
Sheng-Hsiung Chang ◽  
...  

Solar energy can be harvested using luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) incorporated with edge-mounted solar cells without sacrificing their see-through visibility, thus facilitating the development of solar windows.


Author(s):  
Bingxu Liu ◽  
Shihuan Ren ◽  
Guangting Han ◽  
Haiguang Zhao ◽  
Xingyi Huang ◽  
...  

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are large-area sunlight collectors, consisting a waveguide embedded with fluorophores LSCs could reduce the use of expensive silicon solar cells, thus decreasing the cost of the...


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 2671-2680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorcan J. Brennan ◽  
Finn Purcell-Milton ◽  
Barry McKenna ◽  
Trystan M. Watson ◽  
Yurii K. Gun'ko ◽  
...  

Green-emitting quantum dot luminescent solar concentrators are used to sensitise an optically-matched dye-sensitised solar cell.


Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (33) ◽  
pp. 17265-17271
Author(s):  
Seong Kyung Nam ◽  
Kiwon Kim ◽  
Ji-Hwan Kang ◽  
Jun Hyuk Moon

Luminescent solar concentrator-photovoltaic systems (LSC-PV) harvest solar light by using transparent photoluminescent plates, which is expected to be particularly useful for building-integrated PV applications.


2018 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 237-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Gong ◽  
Wenwen Ma ◽  
Yunxia Li ◽  
Lingqi Zhong ◽  
Wenjing Li ◽  
...  

Nano Energy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
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Daniele Benetti ◽  
Xin Tong ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Yufeng Zhou ◽  
...  

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2018 ◽  
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Daniele Benetti ◽  
Xin Tong ◽  
Lei Jin ◽  
Zhiming M. Wang ◽  
...  

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