Dye alignment in luminescent solar concentrators: I. Vertical alignment for improved waveguide coupling

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 101, 2010, Pages A79-A90

  Mulder, C L ^a   Reusswig, P D ^a   Velazquez A M ^a   Kim, H ^a   Rotschild, C ^a   Baldo, M A ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; FLOWCHARTING; LUMINESCENCE; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SUN;

DIPOLE ORIENTATION; DYE MOLECULE; FLAT PLATE; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TRAPPING EFFICIENCIES; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT; WAVEGUIDE COUPLING; WAVEGUIDE MODE; WEAK ABSORPTION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77952023681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000A79     Document Type: Article

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