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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"solar harvesting"”.
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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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Photo-Thermal Application of a Polydimethylsiloxane Foam Embedded with Carbon Nanoparticles for Interfacial Solar Water Evaporation
… in various fields such as flexible energy harvesting and storage devices. In this work, carbon nanoparticle (CNP) doped PDMS composite foams with an open-porous structure were fabricated via a facile salt-leaching technique to achieve excellent photo-thermal properties for solar …
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Optical Antenna Photovoltaics & Making Metallic Nano-rods
Solar power is a clean, renewable source of energy. There is a growing demand for cheap, high efficiency photovoltaic cells. Of the many emerging solar harvesting technologies, a concept that has not been widely explored is that of optical antennas. In 1972 Bailey et al.[1] explored scaling down of …
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Investigation of chiral porphyrin aggregates with heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy
… photosynthetic organisms harvest and transport solar energy through the finely-tuned interplay between vibrational, electronic, and excitonic characteristics within photosynthetic reaction centers. These characteristics depend intimately on the precise arrangement of the reaction centers' …
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Upconversion Phosphors for Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting
… of the near-infrared (NIR) region in solar harvesting applications, such as semiconductor photocatalysis, necessitated the incorporation of upconverters, which are capable of absorbing multiple NIR photons absorbed and emit UV-Visible photons. This study investigates the emission …
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Baseline-Free and Self-Powered Structural Health Monitoring
… supplies in SHM systems, the concept of energy harvesting is investigated. Energy harvesting devices are designed to capture surrounding ambient energy and convert it into usable electrical energy. Several types of energy harvesting exist, including vibration, thermal, and solar harvesting. A …