Design of a polymer optical fiber luminescent solar concentrator

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 403-416

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

luminescent solar concentrators; polymer fibers

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; FIBERS; GEOMETRY; LUMINESCENCE; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERS;

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; LIGHT CONCENTRATION; LUMINESCENT MATERIAL; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; OPTICAL-TO-ELECTRICAL CONVERSION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLYMER FIBER; SUBMILLIMETERS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 84924515971     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2435     Document Type: Article

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