scholarly journals Intrinsic and Extrinsic Exciton Recombination Pathways in AgInS2 Colloidal Nanocrystals

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Matteo L. Zaffalon ◽  
Valerio Pinchetti ◽  
Andrea Camellini ◽  
Sergey Vikulov ◽  
Chiara Capitani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Valence Band ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Opposite Parity ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Exciton Decay ◽  
Transmission Measurements ◽  
Photoluminescence Studies ◽  
Electrochemical Potentials ◽  
Excitonic Recombination

Ternary I-III-VI2 nanocrystals (NCs), such as AgInS2 and CuInS2, are garnering interest as heavy-metal-free materials for photovoltaics, luminescent solar concentrators, LEDs, and bioimaging. The origin of the emission and absorption properties in this class of NCs is still a subject of debate. Recent theoretical and experimental studies revealed that the characteristic Stokes-shifted and long-lived luminescence of stoichiometric CuInS2 NCs arises from the detailed structure of the valence band featuring two sublevels with different parity. The same valence band substructure is predicted to occur in AgInS2 NCs, yet no experimental confirmation is available to date. Here, we use complementary spectroscopic, spectro-electrochemical, and magneto-optical investigations as a function of temperature to investigate the band structure and the excitonic recombination mechanisms in stoichiometric AgInS2 NCs. Transient transmission measurements reveal the signatures of two subbands with opposite parity, and photoluminescence studies at cryogenic temperatures evidence a dark state emission due to enhanced exchange interaction, consistent with the behavior of stoichiometric CuInS2 NCs. Lowering the temperature as well as applying reducing electrochemical potentials further suppress electron trapping, which represents the main nonradiative channel for exciton decay, leading to nearly 100% emission efficiency.

scholarly journals Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Energy Transfer from an Aggregation-Induced Emitter Conjugated Polymer

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanpeng Lyu ◽  
James Kendall ◽  
Ilaria Meazzini ◽  
Eduard Preis ◽  
Sebnem Baysec ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Optical Efficiency ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Perylene Bisimide ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Covalent Grafting ◽  
Förster Energy Transfer ◽  
Donor Acceptor ◽  
Photoluminescence Studies

<div><div><div><p>Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are solar-harvesting devices fabricated from transparent waveguide that is doped or coated with lumophores. Despite their potential for architectural integration, the optical efficiency of LSCs is often limited by incomplete harvesting of solar radiation and aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) of lumophores in the solid state. Here, we demonstrate a multi-lumophore LSC design which circumvents these challenges through a combination of non-radiative Förster energy transfer (FRET) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE). The LSC incorporates a green-emitting poly(tetraphenylethylene), p-O-TPE, as an energy donor and a red-emitting perylene bisimide molecular dye (PDI-Sil) as the energy acceptor, within an organic-inorganic hybrid di-ureasil waveguide. Steady-state photoluminescence studies demonstrate that the di-ureasil host induced AIE from the p-O-PTE donor polymer, leading to a high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of ~45% and a large Stokes shift of ~150 nm. Covalent grafting of the PDI-Sil acceptor to the siliceous domains of the di-ureasil waveguide also inhibits non-radiative losses by preventing molecular aggregation. Due to the excellent spectral overlap, FRET was shown to occur from p-O-TPE to PDI-Sil, which increased with acceptor concentration. As a result, the final LSC (4.5 cm x 4.5 cm x 0.3 cm) with an optimised donor- acceptor ratio (1:1 by wt%) exhibited an internal photon efficiency of 20%, demonstrating a viable design for LSCs utilising an AIE-based FRET approach to improve the solar-harvesting performance.</p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Energy Transfer from an Aggregation-Induced Emitter Conjugated Polymer

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanpeng Lyu ◽  
James Kendall ◽  
Eduard Preis ◽  
Sebnem Baysec ◽  
Ullrich Scherf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Optical Efficiency ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Perylene Bisimide ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Covalent Grafting ◽  
Förster Energy Transfer ◽  
Donor Acceptor ◽  
Photoluminescence Studies

<div><div><div><p>Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are solar-harvesting devices fabricated from transparent waveguide that is doped or coated with lumophores. Despite their potential for architectural integration, the optical efficiency of LSCs is often limited by incomplete harvesting of solar radiation and aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) of lumophores in the solid state. Here, we demonstrate a multi-lumophore LSC design which circumvents these challenges through a combination of non-radiative Förster energy transfer (FRET) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE). The LSC incorporates a green-emitting poly(tetraphenylethylene), p-O-TPE, as an energy donor and a red-emitting perylene bisimide molecular dye (PDI-Sil) as the energy acceptor, within an organic-inorganic hybrid di-ureasil waveguide. Steady-state photoluminescence studies demonstrate that the di-ureasil host induced AIE from the p-O-PTE donor polymer, leading to a high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of ~45% and a large Stokes shift of ~150 nm. Covalent grafting of the PDI-Sil acceptor to the siliceous domains of the di-ureasil waveguide also inhibits non-radiative losses by preventing molecular aggregation. Due to the excellent spectral overlap, FRET was shown to occur from p-O-TPE to PDI-Sil, which increased with acceptor concentration. As a result, the final LSC (4.5 cm x 4.5 cm x 0.3 cm) with an optimised donor- acceptor ratio (1:1 by wt%) exhibited an internal photon efficiency of 20%, demonstrating a viable design for LSCs utilising an AIE-based FRET approach to improve the solar-harvesting performance.</p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Energy Transfer from an Aggregation-Induced Emitter Conjugated Polymer

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanpeng Lyu ◽  
James Kendall ◽  
Ilaria Meazzini ◽  
Eduard Preis ◽  
Sebnem Baysec ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Optical Efficiency ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Perylene Bisimide ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Covalent Grafting ◽  
Förster Energy Transfer ◽  
Donor Acceptor ◽  
Photoluminescence Studies

<div><div><div><p>Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are solar-harvesting devices fabricated from transparent waveguide that is doped or coated with lumophores. Despite their potential for architectural integration, the optical efficiency of LSCs is often limited by incomplete harvesting of solar radiation and aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) of lumophores in the solid state. Here, we demonstrate a multi-lumophore LSC design which circumvents these challenges through a combination of non-radiative Förster energy transfer (FRET) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE). The LSC incorporates a green-emitting poly(tetraphenylethylene), p-O-TPE, as an energy donor and a red-emitting perylene bisimide molecular dye (PDI-Sil) as the energy acceptor, within an organic-inorganic hybrid di-ureasil waveguide. Steady-state photoluminescence studies demonstrate that the di-ureasil host induced AIE from the p-O-PTE donor polymer, leading to a high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of ~45% and a large Stokes shift of ~150 nm. Covalent grafting of the PDI-Sil acceptor to the siliceous domains of the di-ureasil waveguide also inhibits non-radiative losses by preventing molecular aggregation. Due to the excellent spectral overlap, FRET was shown to occur from p-O-TPE to PDI-Sil, which increased with acceptor concentration. As a result, the final LSC (4.5 cm x 4.5 cm x 0.3 cm) with an optimised donor- acceptor ratio (1:1 by wt%) exhibited an internal photon efficiency of 20%, demonstrating a viable design for LSCs utilising an AIE-based FRET approach to improve the solar-harvesting performance.</p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Energy Transfer from an Aggregation-Induced Emitter Conjugated Polymer

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanpeng Lyu ◽  
James Kendall ◽  
Ilaria Meazzini ◽  
Eduard Preis ◽  
Sebnem Baysec ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Optical Efficiency ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Perylene Bisimide ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Covalent Grafting ◽  
Förster Energy Transfer ◽  
Donor Acceptor ◽  
Photoluminescence Studies

<div><div><div><p>Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are solar-harvesting devices fabricated from transparent waveguide that is doped or coated with lumophores. Despite their potential for architectural integration, the optical efficiency of LSCs is often limited by incomplete harvesting of solar radiation and aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) of lumophores in the solid state. Here, we demonstrate a multi-lumophore LSC design which circumvents these challenges through a combination of non-radiative Förster energy transfer (FRET) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE). The LSC incorporates a green-emitting poly(tetraphenylethylene), p-O-TPE, as an energy donor and a red-emitting perylene bisimide molecular dye (PDI-Sil) as the energy acceptor, within an organic-inorganic hybrid di-ureasil waveguide. Steady-state photoluminescence studies demonstrate that the di-ureasil host induced AIE from the p-O-PTE donor polymer, leading to a high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of ~45% and a large Stokes shift of ~150 nm. Covalent grafting of the PDI-Sil acceptor to the siliceous domains of the di-ureasil waveguide also inhibits non-radiative losses by preventing molecular aggregation. Due to the excellent spectral overlap, FRET was shown to occur from p-O-TPE to PDI-Sil, which increased with acceptor concentration. As a result, the final LSC (4.5 cm x 4.5 cm x 0.3 cm) with an optimised donor- acceptor ratio (1:1 by wt%) exhibited an internal photon efficiency of 20%, demonstrating a viable design for LSCs utilising an AIE-based FRET approach to improve the solar-harvesting performance.</p></div></div></div>

Dual-sensitized upconversion-assisted, triple-band absorbing luminescent solar concentrators

Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (33) ◽  
pp. 17265-17271
Author(s):  
Seong Kyung Nam ◽  
Kiwon Kim ◽  
Ji-Hwan Kang ◽  
Jun Hyuk Moon
Keyword(s):  
Solar Light ◽  
Photovoltaic Systems ◽  
Solar Concentrator ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrator ◽  
Triple Band

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.

scholarly journals The Hidden Potential of Luminescent Solar Concentrators

2020 ◽  
pp. 2002883
Author(s):  
Ioannis Papakonstantinou ◽  
Mark Portnoi ◽  
Michael G. Debije
Keyword(s):  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Reducing reabsorption in luminescent solar concentrators with a self-assembling polymer matrix

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 118095
Author(s):  
Damon M. de Clercq ◽  
Sanutep V. Chan ◽  
Jake Hardy ◽  
Michael B. Price ◽  
Nathaniel J.L.K. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Matrix ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Self Assembling

scholarly journals POF-Based Solar Concentrators Incorporating Dyes and Europium Chelates

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2667
Author(s):  
Ander Vieira ◽  
Jon Arrue ◽  
Begoña García-Ramiro ◽  
Felipe Jiménez ◽  
María Asunción Illarramendi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Organic Dyes ◽  
Radiative Energy ◽  
Quantum Yields ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Europium Ion ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Simplifying Assumptions ◽  
Europium Chelates ◽  
Polymer Optical Fibers

In this paper, useful models that enable time-efficient computational analyses of the performance of luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are developed and thoroughly described. These LSCs are based on polymer optical fibers codoped with organic dyes and/or europium chelates. The interest in such dopants lies in the availability of new dyes with higher quantum yields and in the photostability and suitable absorption and emission bands of europium chelates. Time-efficiency without compromising accuracy is especially important for the simulation of europium chelates, in which non-radiative energy transfers from the absorbing ligands to the europium ion and vice versa are so fast that the discretization in time, in the absence of some simplifying assumptions, would have to be very fine. Some available experimental results are also included for the sake of comparison.

scholarly journals Ultraviolet and Near‐Infrared Dual‐Band Selective‐Harvesting Transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2003581
Author(s):  
Chenchen Yang ◽  
Wei Sheng ◽  
Mehdi Moemeni ◽  
Matthew Bates ◽  
Christopher K. Herrera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Selective Harvesting ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators

scholarly journals Efficiency and loss mechanisms of plasmonic Luminescent Solar Concentrators

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (S5) ◽  
pp. A735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens Tummeltshammer ◽  
Mark S. Brown ◽  
Alaric Taylor ◽  
Anthony J. Kenyon ◽  
Ioannis Papakonstantinou
Keyword(s):  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Loss Mechanisms
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