Increased efficiency of luminescent solar concentrators after application of organic wavelength selective mirrors

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 105, 2012, Pages A655-A668

  Verbunt, Paul P C ^a   Tsoi, Shufen ^a   Debije, Michael G ^a   Broer, Dirk J ^a   Bastiaansen, Cees W M ^a,b   Lin, Chi Wen ^c   De Boer, Dick K G ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE; MIRRORS; PHOTONS; REFLECTION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

ABSORBANCES; DYE CONCENTRATION; EMITTED PHOTONS; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; LUMINOPHORES; LUMOGEN; RE-ABSORPTION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84866234029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A655     Document Type: Article

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