The effect of perylene diimide aggregation on the light collection efficiency of luminescent concentrators

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 105, Issue , 2012, Pages 287-292

  Haines, Christopher ^a   Chen, Ming ^b   Ghiggino, Kenneth P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Luminescent solar concentrator; Perylene diimide; Ray trace modelling

Indexed keywords

COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; DYE CONCENTRATION; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; GLASS SUBSTRATES; INTEGRATING SPHERES; LIGHT COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; LUMINESCENCE CONVERSION; LUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PERYLENEDIIMIDES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE FILMS; RAY-TRACE; RE-ABSORPTION; STOKES SHIFT;

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; EFFICIENCY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ESTERS; LIGHT; QUANTUM YIELD; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SUBSTRATES;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84864471054     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.06.030     Document Type: Article

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