Polarization-independent filters for luminescent solar concentrators

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  De Boer, Dick K G ^a   Chi Wen, Lin ^a,b   Giesbers, Merijn P ^a   Cornelissen, Hugo J ^a   Debije, Michael G ^c   Verbunt, Paul P C ^c   Broer, Dirk J ^c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RANGE; CHOLESTERIC FILTERS; LUMINESCENT EMISSION; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; PITCH GRADIENT; POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT; REFLECTION BANDS; TRANSMISSION BAND; WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE FILTERS; WAVEPLATES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; LUMINESCENCE; POLARIZATION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 78751565413     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3541543     Document Type: Article

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