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Sterically Engineered Perylene Dyes for High Efficiency Oriented Fluorophore Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Chemistry of Materials (2014)
  • Willie E. Benjamin
  • Darren R. Veit
  • Matt J. Perkins
  • Edward Bain, Western Washington University
  • Kelsey Scharnhorst, Western Washington University
  • Stephen McDowall, Western Washington University
  • David L. Patrick, Western Washington University
  • John D. Gilbertson, Western Washington University
Abstract
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) collect and concentrate sunlight for use in solar power generation. First proposed over 30 years ago, LSCs are simple devices, consisting of a planar waveguide coated or impregnated with a fluorophore. The fluorophore absorbs sunlight, re-emitting it into the waveguide where it travels to a device edge for conversion by photovoltaic (PV) cells. LSCs have attracted attention due to their high theoretical concentration factors, their ability to provide wavelength-to-bandgap matched photons, and because they function equally well under diffuse and direct illumination.
Keywords
  • Luminescent solar conscentrators
Publication Date
February 11, 2014
DOI
10.1021/cm403286v
Citation Information
Willie E. Benjamin, Darren R. Veit, Matt J. Perkins, Edward Bain, et al.. "Sterically Engineered Perylene Dyes for High Efficiency Oriented Fluorophore Luminescent Solar Concentrators" Chemistry of Materials Vol. 26 Iss. 3 (2014) p. 1291 - 1293
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_patrick/12/