Nanocrystals for luminescent solar concentrators

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1315-1323

  Bradshaw, Liam R ^a   Knowles, Kathryn E ^a   McDowall, Stephen ^b   Gamelin, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

doped nanocrystal; Luminescent solar concentrator; nanocrystal heterostructure; phosphor

Indexed keywords

FLOWCHARTING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CRITICAL PROPERTIES; DOPED NANOCRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; FULL SPECTRUM; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; NANOCRYSTALLINES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; TRANSPORT LENGTH;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 84922801531     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl504510t     Document Type: Article

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