Luminescent solar concentrator employing rare earth complex with zero self-absorption loss

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2571-2579

  Wang, Tongxin ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Ma, Wei ^a   Luo, Yanhua ^a   Wang, Lijuan ^a   Hu, Zhijia ^a   Wu, Wenxuan ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Zou, Gang ^a   Zhang, Qijin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Eu3+; Luminescent solar concentrator; Rare earth complex; Solar energy; Theoretical simulation; Zero self absorption

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE; EXPERIMENT DATA; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; HOST ABSORPTIONS; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RARE EARTH COMPLEX; THEORETICAL RESULT; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TRIPHENYLPHOSPHINE OXIDE; ZERO SELF-ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EUROPIUM; LUMINESCENCE; RARE EARTHS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; DYE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

TRIFLUORO;

EID: 80053945924     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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