Fiber luminescent solar concentrator with 5.7% conversion efficiency

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8821, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Banaei, Esmaeil Hooman ^a   Abouraddy, Ayman F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Flex Optronix Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

luminescent solar concentrator; Polymer optical fiber

Indexed keywords

ENERGY NEEDS; GAIN IMPROVEMENT; INCIDENT LIGHT; LIGHT WEIGHT; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL FIBER PRODUCTION; SOLAR SHEETS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FIBERS; LUMINESCENCE; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 84886775185     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2022601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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