Cascade luminescent solar concentrators

被引:28
作者
Daorta, Sthy Flores [1 ]
Proto, Antonio [2 ]
Fusco, Roberto [2 ]
Andreani, Lucio Claudio [1 ]
Liscidini, Marco [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Pavia, Dipartimento Fis, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[2] ENI SpA, Res Ctr Nonconvent Energies, Ist ENI Donegani, I-28100 Novara, Italy
关键词
OPTICAL-PROPERTIES; ENERGY; PERFORMANCE; COLLECTORS; CONVERSION; PMMA; DYES;
D O I
10.1063/1.4871481
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
We propose a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) characterized by a strong enhancement of the concentration factor in which the area covered by photovoltaic cells is independent of the area over which sunlight is collected. We name this device cascade-LSC (c-LSC), as sunlight is both geometrically and spectrally concentrated by cascading absorption and emission into different LSCs. We demonstrate a prototype and measure the generated photocurrent. The results are in good agreement with those predicted by our numerical model based on Monte Carlo simulations. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
引用
收藏
页数:4
相关论文
共 28 条
[1]   The photophysical properties of chromophores at high (100 mM and above) concentrations in polymers and as neat solids [J].
Al-Kaysi, Rabih O. ;
Ahn, Tai Sang ;
Muller, Astrid M. ;
Bardeen, Christopher J. .
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2006, 8 (29) :3453-3459
[2]   LUMINESCENT SOLAR COLLECTORS BASED ON FLUORESCENT GLASSES [J].
ANDREWS, LJ ;
MCCOLLUM, BC ;
LEMPICKI, A .
JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE, 1981, 24-5 (NOV) :877-880
[3]  
[Anonymous], SIMULATION MONTE CAR
[4]   LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS .2. EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL-ANALYSIS OF THEIR POSSIBLE EFFICIENCIES [J].
BATCHELDER, JS ;
ZEWAIL, AH ;
COLE, T .
APPLIED OPTICS, 1981, 20 (21) :3733-3754
[5]   MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF PMMA LUMINESCENT SOLAR COLLECTORS [J].
CARRASCOSA, M ;
UNAMUNO, S ;
AGULLOLOPEZ, F .
APPLIED OPTICS, 1983, 22 (20) :3236-3241
[6]   Quantum dot solar concentrators [J].
Chatten, AJ ;
Barnham, KWJ ;
Buxton, BF ;
Ekins-Daukes, NJ ;
Malik, MA .
SEMICONDUCTORS, 2004, 38 (08) :909-917
[7]   High-efficiency organic solar concentrators for photovoltaics [J].
Currie, Michael J. ;
Mapel, Jonathan K. ;
Heidel, Timothy D. ;
Goffri, Shalom ;
Baldo, Marc A. .
SCIENCE, 2008, 321 (5886) :226-228
[8]   Thirty Years of Luminescent Solar Concentrator Research: Solar Energy for the Built Environment [J].
Debije, Michael G. ;
Verbunt, Paul P. C. .
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 2012, 2 (01) :12-35
[9]  
DECARDONA MS, 1985, SOL CELLS, V15, P225
[10]   ORGANIC-DYES IN PMMA IN A PLANAR LUMINESCENT SOLAR COLLECTOR - A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION [J].
DRAKE, JM ;
LESIECKI, ML ;
SANSREGRET, J ;
THOMAS, WRL .
APPLIED OPTICS, 1982, 21 (16) :2945-2952