Luminescent solar concentrators - A review of recent results

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21773-21792

  Van Sark, Wilfried G J H M ^a   Barnham, Keith W J ^b   Slooff, Lenneke H ^c   Chatten, Amanda J ^b   Büchtemann, Andreas ^d   Meyer, Andreas ^e   McCormack, Sarah J ^f   Koole, Rolf ^g   Farrell, Daniel J ^b   Bose, Rahul ^b   Bende, Evert E ^c   Burgers, Antonius R ^c   Budel, Tristram ^c   Quilitz, Jana ^d   Kennedy, Manus ^f   Meyer, Toby ^e   De Mello Donega C ^g   Meijerink, Andries ^g   Vanmaekelbergh, Daniel ^g  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e Rue de l'Ouriette 129   (Switzerland)

^f DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOWCHARTING; LUMINESCENCE; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EMITTED LIGHT; FULL-SPECTRUM; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; MODEL APPROACH; TRANSPARENT POLYMER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 58149117815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021773     Document Type: Review

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