Using amorphous silicon solar cells to boost the viability of luminescent solar concentrators | Zendy

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Using amorphous silicon solar cells to boost the viability of luminescent solar concentrators

Author(s) -

Farrell Daniel J.,

Sark Wilfried G. J. H. M. van,

Velthuijsen Steven T.,

Schropp Ruud E. I.

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

physica status solidi c

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 1610-1642

pISSN - 1862-6351

DOI - 10.1002/pssc.200982866

Subject(s) - amorphous silicon , materials science , optoelectronics , luminescence , energy conversion efficiency , hybrid solar cell , crystalline silicon , planar , solar cell , amorphous solid , quantum dot solar cell , silicon , polymer solar cell , organic solar cell , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , plasmonic solar cell , optics , chemistry , composite material , polymer , engineering , physics , computer science , telecommunications , crystallography , computer graphics (images)

We have, for the first time, designed and fabricated hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells to be used in conjunction with Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs). LSCs are planar plastic sheets doped with organic dyes that absorb solar illumination and down shift the energy to narrowband luminescence which is collected by solar cells attached to the sheet edge. We fabricated an LSC module with two bonded solar cells and performed characterisation with the cells connected in series and parallel configurations. We find that the LSC module has an optical collection efficiency of 9.5% and an optimum power conversion efficiency of approaching 1% when the cells are in a parallel connection. (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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