Efficiency and loss mechanisms of plasmonic luminescent solar concentrators

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 105, 2013, Pages A735-A749

  Tummeltshammer, Clemens ^a   Brown, Mark S ^a   Taylor, Alaric ^a   Kenyon, Anthony J ^a   Papakonstantinou, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LUMINESCENCE; PLASMONS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

DYE ABSORPTION; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; INCOMING LIGHT; LOSS MECHANISMS; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SILVER SPHERES;

SILVER;

EID: 84884551038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.00A735     Document Type: Article

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