Reduction of escape cone losses in luminescent solar concentrators with cholesteric mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7043, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Slooff, L H ^a   Burgers, A R ^a   Debije, M G ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cholesteric mirror; Dichroic mirror; Fluorescent solar concentrator; Luminescent solar concentrator; Ray tracing; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; APPLICATIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOWCHARTING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMERS; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

CHOLESTERIC MIRROR; DICHROIC MIRROR; FLUORESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATOR; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATOR; SIMULATIONS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 56249128258     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.794522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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