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Efficiency and loss mechanisms of plasmonic Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Author(s) -

Clemens Tummeltshammer,

Mark S. Brown,

Alaric Taylor,

Anthony J. Kenyon,

Ioannis Papakonstantinou

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

optics express

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 271

ISSN - 1094-4087

DOI - 10.1364/oe.21.00a735

Subject(s) - materials science , plasmon , luminescence , absorption (acoustics) , optics , optoelectronics , plasmonic solar cell , scattering , light scattering , silver nanoparticle , nanoparticle , nanoscopic scale , energy conversion efficiency , nanotechnology , polymer solar cell , physics , composite material

Using a hybrid nanoscale/macroscale model, we simulate the efficiency of a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) which employs silver nanoparticles to enhance the dye absorption and scatter the incoming light. We show that the normalized optical efficiency can be increased from 10.4% for a single dye LSC to 32.6% for a plasmonic LSC with silver spheres immersed inside a thin dye layer. Most of the efficiency enhancement is due to scattering of the particles and not due to dye absorption/re-emission.

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