Cylindrical luminescent solar concentrators with near-infrared quantum dots

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24308-24313

  Inman, R H ^a   Shcherbatyuk, G V ^a   Medvedko, D ^a   Gopinathan, A ^a   Ghosh, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; GEOMETRIC FACTORS; HOLLOW CYLINDERS; INCIDENT RADIATION; LEAD SULFIDE; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PHOTO-STABILITY; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; SAMPLE HOMOGENEITY; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LENSES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 82055191979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024308     Document Type: Article

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