Homeotropic alignment and Förster resonance energy transfer: The way to a brighter luminescent solar concentrator

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 17, 2014, Pages

  Tummeltshammer, Clemens ^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

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUOROPHORES; FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALS; RAY TRACING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

ABSORPTION AND EMISSIONS; HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; MONTE-CARLO RAY TRACING; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC DYE MOLECULES; RE-ABSORPTION; TRAPPING EFFICIENCIES;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84908682140     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4900986     Document Type: Article

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