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 …

Thirty years of luminescent solar concentrator research: solar energy for the built environment

MG Debije, PPC Verbunt - Advanced Energy Materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Research on the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) over the past thirty‐odd years is
reviewed. The LSC is a simple device at its heart, employing a polymeric or glass …

Core/shell quantum dot based luminescent solar concentrators with reduced reabsorption and enhanced efficiency

I Coropceanu, MG Bawendi - Nano letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots (QDs) have been optimized toward luminescent solar
concentration (LSC) applications. Systematically increasing the shell thickness continuously …

Towards efficient spectral converters through materials design for luminescent solar devices

B McKenna, RC Evans - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction photovoltaic devices exhibit a bottleneck in their efficiency due to incomplete
or inefficient harvesting of photons in the low‐or high‐energy regions of the solar spectrum …

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 …

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 …

Quantum dots for luminescent solar concentrators

F Purcell-Milton, YK Gun'ko - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a great need for solar cell based energy resources due to the rapid growth in price
of fossil fuels and the great danger of increasing greenhouse effect caused by carbon …

Luminescent solar concentrators: challenges for lanthanide-based organic–inorganic hybrid materials

SFH Correia, V de Zea Bermudez… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are devices comprising a transparent matrix
embedding optically active centres that absorb the incident radiation, which is re-emitted at a …

Out-of-plane orientation of luminescent excitons in two-dimensional indium selenide

M Brotons-Gisbert, R Proux, R Picard… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Van der Waals materials offer a wide range of atomic layers with unique properties that can
be easily combined to engineer novel electronic and photonic devices. A missing ingredient …