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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Luminescent solar concentrators"”.
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Optimization of luminescent solar concentrators
… the efficiencies of renewable energy harvesting. Solar industry is one of the main sectors in which cutting edge research is done to facilitate this improvement. Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) are part of this effort. They are used to improve the incident light influx into the solar cell …
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Dye-doped polymer nanoparticles for flexible, bulk luminescent solar concentrators
Bulk luminescent solar concentrators (LSC) cannot make use of Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) due to necessarily low dye concentrations. In this thesis, we attempt to present a poly-vinylalcohol (PVA) waveguide containing dye-aggregate polystyrene nanospheres that enable FRET at …
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Forster Resonance Energy Transfer in materials used in Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) or fluorescent concentrators are a cheap and efficient way to concentrate sun light into a photovoltaic cell. Solar cells can be made to perform better under high illumination conditions and LSCs can be employed to perform this task. Effective utilization of …
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Lifetime and efficiency improvement of organic luminescent solar concentrators for photovoltaic applications
… while converting the unwanted invisible solar radiation into electricity. Research has focussed on two particular aspects, namely (i) the integration of thin-film technology for solar radiation transmission control and (ii) light guiding structures for solar radiation routing towards the …
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Engineering the optical properties of luminescent solar concentrators at the molecular scale
Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) concentrate solar radiation onto photovoltaic (PV) cells using an inexpensive collector plate to absorb incoming photons and waveguide fluorescently re-emitted photons to PVs at the edge. This thesis addresses the two main energy loss mechanisms in LSCs, …
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Design of high-performance luminescent solar concentrators based on aggregation-induced emitters in organic-inorganic hybrid waveguides
Solar-harvesting systems that have the potential to be integrated into the urban built environment have attracted significant interest. However, traditional solar panels are not well-suited for many modern architectures, due to their bulky and rigid structure, and reduced performance in diffuse …
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Capture and control of excitations
… to optimizing their performance. Devices such as luminescent solar concentrators and signal concentrators that increase the efficiency of solar energy production and the speed of point-to-point communication, respectively, will be crucial for maximizing the sustainability and connectedness of the …
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Colloidal CdSe/CdS nanostructures : synthesis, optical characterization and applications
… and to use them to create highly performing luminescent solar concentrators. In the first part of the thesis we will discuss our efforts to improve the synthesis of CdSe/CdS nanostructures of different dimensionalities. In particular, we discuss the synthesis of CdSe/CdS quantum dots and …
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Luminescent solar concentrator structures for solar energy harvesting and radiation control
Luminescent solar concentrators are devices capable of converting some spectral components of solar radiation by luminescence and concentrating them before collection by photovoltaic. The aim of this thesis is to design, develop and demonstrate the principle of all-inorganic semitransparent …
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Perovskite interfaces with protective zinc compounds – DFT computation and related experiments
… These advances are expected to enable efficient luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs), paving the way for scalable solar energy harvesting in urban environments.
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Applications of spectral management in optoelectronic devices
… of optoelectronic devices: photovoltaics (PVs), luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Multiple excitation generation (MEG) – a process in which multiple charge-carrier pairs are generated from a single optical excitation - is a promising way to improve the …
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Luminescent Harnessing of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Excitons
… has applications in e.g., photon harvesting with luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs). Newly prepared monolayers are however susceptible to chalcogen atom vacancies, which quench bright excitons and trap mobile charges, amounting to material with poor PL yields and low mobilities, which is of …
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Sensitized energy transfer for organic solar cells, optical solar concentrators, and solar pumped lasers
… several advantages to the design of organic solar cells and luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) for the end goal of achieving a lower cost solar energy generation. This thesis explores three new device architectures to overcome limited solar absorption in singlet-exciton-fission based …
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Luminescent concentrators based on monocrystalline solar cells
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2012-02-01T00:50:37Z Item is restricted until 2014-02-01T00:50:07Z
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Quantum dot polymer composite materials for light management in optoelectronic devices
… optoelectronic devices, including photovoltaic concentrators and LED display modules. Semiconductor nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots (QDs), serve as the pivotal luminescent materials in these devices. A quantum dots encapsulation method was developed here to homogeneously disperse QDs in …
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Micro-photovoltaic materials and systems for solar energy harvesting and light management
… and grid discontinuities, however, suggest solar energy harvesting benefits from a balanced approach to expansion of both remote (i.e., solar farm) PV and on-site form factors. Transparent PV (TPV) for power generation on-site expands the reach of PV beyond the traditional building rooftop …
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LUMINESCENT COMPOUNDS FOR APPLICATIONS IN PHOTONICS
Luminescent compounds have seen a growing interest for the possibility to employ them for several applications, from energy conversion to the biomedical field, but also sensors, light-emitting devices, and many others. The variety of luminescent compounds is huge, and this offers a wide flexibility …