Exploration of parameters influencing the self-absorption losses in luminescent solar concentrators with an experimentally validated combined ray-tracing/Monte-Carlo model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8821, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Krumer, Zachar ^a   Van Sark, Wilfried G J H M ^b   De Mello Donega, Celso ^a   Schropp, Ruud E I ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

luminescent solar concentrators; Monte Carlo simulations; ray tracing simulations; re absorption; self absorption

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; MONTE- CARLO SIMULATIONS; RAY TRACING SIMULATION; RE-ABSORPTION; SELF-ABSORPTION;

FLUOROPHORES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LUMINESCENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR ENERGY;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 84886796295     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2023682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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