Emission of Rhodamine B in PMMA opals for luminescent solar concentrators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8438, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gutmann, Johannes ^a,b   Posdziech, Janina ^a   Peters, Marius ^a,c   Steidl, Lorenz ^d   Zentel, Rudolf ^d   Zappe, Hans ^b   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

LSC; Luminescent solar concentrator; Opal; Photonic crystal; Photovoltaics; Redistribution

Indexed keywords

LSC; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; OPAL; PHOTOVOLTAICS; REDISTRIBUTION;

CRACKS; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

LIGHT;

EID: 84861944429     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.922681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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