Large-area luminescent solar concentrators based on Stokes-shift-engineered nanocrystals in a mass-polymerized PMMA matrix

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 392-399

  Meinardi, Francesco ^a   Colombo, Annalisa ^a   Velizhanin, Kirill A ^b   Simonutti, Roberto ^a   Lorenzon, Monica ^a   Beverina, Luca ^a   Viswanatha, Ranjani ^b,c   Klimov, Victor I ^b   Brovelli, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL METHODS; LARGE AREA DEVICES; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84899656946     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.54     Document Type: Article

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