Optical design and efficiency improvement for organic luminescent solar concentrators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8124, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Chunhua ^a   Hirst, Linda S ^b   Winston, Roland ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

efficiency; liquid crystal; molecular alignment; multi layer; Organic luminescent solar concentrators; Photovoltaic; solar cells; solar energy

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM SURFACES; DIFFERENT SIZES; DYE MOLECULE; EDGE SURFACE; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; MULTI-LAYERED; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; OUTPUT CURRENT; OUTPUT POWER; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMERIZED LIQUID CRYSTAL;

ALIGNMENT; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FLOWCHARTING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80053940498     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.899366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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