Bose, Rahul and Farrell, Daniel J. and Chatten, Amanda J. and Pravettoni, Mauro and Büchtemann, Andreas and Barnham, Keith W. J. (2007) Novel configurations of luminescent solar concentrators. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-second European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference The Twenty-second European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Milan.
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The luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) collects incident radiation over a large surface and concentrates it with the use of luminescent centres onto small edge surfaces, where it can be converted by photovoltaic (PV) cells. It presents a way to make photovoltaic systems more cost-effective and is particularly suited for building integration. Conventional LSCs and thin film composite LSCs have been fabricated and compared. No significant difference in performance was found between these two configurations. Moreover, the angular distribution of the luminescent output was examined for both types of LSCs. A versatile raytrace model has been developed and applied to the experiments with good qualitative agreement. Simulations have been carried out with the raytrace model to determine the potential and the mechanisms for performance optimisations of the LSC.
| Item Type: | Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Poster) |
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| Subjects: | Physical sciences > Physics > Chemical physics > Solid-state physics Physical sciences > Astronomy > Solar & solar terrestrial physics |
| Depositing User: | Mauro Pravettoni |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2013 15:43 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2013 15:43 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/2016 |
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