Color considerations in fluorescent solar concentrator stacks

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 5112-5117

  Swift, Paul D ^a   Smith, Geoff B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR RADIATION;

COLOR RENDERING;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 0042694705     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005112     Document Type: Article

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