Electromagnetic simulations of a photonic luminescent solar concentrator

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 102, 2012, Pages A157-A167

  Gutmann, Johannes ^a,d   Peters, Marius ^a,b   Bläsi, Benedikt ^a   Hermle, Martin ^a   Gombert, Andreas ^c   Zappe, Hans ^d   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Soitec Solar GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC BAND GAP; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

BROAD SPECTRAL; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; EMITTING LAYER; FDTD SIMULATIONS; LIGHT GUIDING; LUMINESCENT MATERIAL; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84858984787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A157     Document Type: Article

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