The luminescent concentrator illuminated

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6197, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Slooff, L H ^a   Kinderman, R ^a   Burgers, A R ^a   Buchtemann A ^b   Danz, R ^b   Meyer, T B ^c   Chatten, A J ^d   Farrell, D ^d   Barnham, K W J ^d   Van Roosmalen, J A M ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Rue de l'Ouriette 129   (Switzerland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Luminescent concentrator; Radiative energy transfer; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

DYES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RAY TRACING; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

LUMINESCENT CONCENTRATORS (LC); RADIATIVE ENERGY TRANSFER; RED EMITTING DYES; SILICON CELLS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 33747778990     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.662503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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