Quantum Dot Luminescent Concentrator Cavity Exhibiting 30-fold Concentration

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1576-1583

  Bronstein, Noah D ^a   Yao, Yuan ^b   Xu, Lu ^b   O'Brien, Erin ^a   Powers, Alexander S ^a   Ferry, Vivian E ^c   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a,d   Nuzzo, Ralph G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

light trapping; luminescent solar concentrators; photovoltaics; quantum dots; transfer printing

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WAVEGUIDES;

CONCENTRATION RATIO; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; MULTIJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTON COLLECTION; PHOTON TRANSPORT; PHOTOVOLTAICS; TRANSFER PRINTING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84947708433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00334     Document Type: Article

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