Highly efficient and broadband upconversion of NIR sunlight with neodymium-doped glass ceramics

Advanced Optical Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 541-545

  Skrzypczak, Ulrich ^a   Seifert, Gerhard ^a,b   Schweizer, Stefan ^c,d  

^a Centre for Innovation Competence SiLi nano   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER CENTER FOR SILICON PHOTOVOLTAICS CSP   (Germany)

^c SOUTH WESTPHALIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glass ceramics; Photovoltaics; Rare earths; Rate equations; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EFFICIENCY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED DEVICES; NEODYMIUM; PHOTONS; RARE EARTHS;

CONCENTRATED SUNLIGHTS; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTON UP CONVERSIONS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RATE EQUATIONS; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; UP-CONVERSION PROCESS;

GLASS CERAMICS;

EID: 84928205538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21951071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201400512     Document Type: Article

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