Highly efficient large-area colourless luminescent solar concentrators using heavy-metal-free colloidal quantum dots

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 878-885

  Meinardi, Francesco ^a   McDaniel, Hunter ^b,c   Carulli, Francesco ^a   Colombo, Annalisa ^a   Velizhanin, Kirill A ^d   Makarov, Nikolay S ^b   Simonutti, Roberto ^a   Klimov, Victor I ^b   Brovelli, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UbiQD Inc   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEAVY METALS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLS; ZERO ENERGY BUILDINGS;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; CONDUCTION BAND ELECTRONS; EMISSION EFFICIENCIES; LAURYL METHACRYLATE; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SEMI-TRANSPARENT PHOTOVOLTAIC; STOKES-SHIFTED EMISSION; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

HEAVY METAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CATALYST; COLLOID; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; GENERAL DEVICE; ILLUMINATION; LARGE AREA QUANTUM DOT LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATOR; NANOENCAPSULATION; OPTICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLAR RADIATION; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84943351733     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.178     Document Type: Article

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