The appropriateness of organic solar cells for indoor lighting conditions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7722, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Minnaert, B ^a   Veelaert, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Absorption window; Indoor PV; Organic PV; Photovoltaic energy; Spectral distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT SOURCE; ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING; CRYSTALLINE SILICON CELLS; FLUORESCENT TUBES; INDOOR APPLICATIONS; INDOOR CONDITIONS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LED LAMPS; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT SPECTRUM; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; NICHE MARKETS; ORGANIC PV; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; SIMULATION-BASED; SOLAR SPECTRUM;

ABSORPTION; CELLS; INCANDESCENT LAMPS; LIGHT SOURCES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77954403894     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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