Tummeltshammer, C;
Brown, MS;
Taylor, A;
Kenyon, AJ;
Papakonstantinou, I;
(2013)
Efficiency and loss mechanisms of plasmonic Luminescent Solar Concentrators.
Optics Express
, 21
(S5)
A735 - A749.
10.1364/OE.21.00A735.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Efficiency and loss mechanisms of plasmonic Luminescent Solar Concentrators |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access publication |
| DOI: | 10.1364/OE.21.00A735 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.00A735 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | (C) 2013 OSA |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1398619 |
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