Hybrid Silicon Nanocrystals for Color-Neutral and Transparent Luminescent Solar ConcentratorsShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: ACS Photonics, E-ISSN 2330-4022, Vol. 6, no 9, p. 2303-2311Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
One of the most detrimental loss mechanisms in Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) is reabsorption of emitted light from the luminophore. Silicon Nanocrystals (SiNCs) offer a solution due to the high apparent Stokes shift, but the poor absorption properties limit their performance as LSC luminophores. Coupling an organic dye to SiNCs represents a smart approach to obtain sensitization of SiNC luminescence by the organic dyes, thus, resulting in tunable and improved optical properties of LSCs. In particular, 9,10-diphenylanthracene was employed as a UV sensitizer for SiNCs in order to produce LSCs with an aesthetic appearance suitable to smart window application and optical efficiency as high as 4.25%. In addition, the role of the energy transfer process on LSC performance was elucidated by a thorough optical and photovoltaic characterization.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Chemical Society (ACS), 2019. Vol. 6, no 9, p. 2303-2311
Keywords [en]
silicon nanoparticles, quantum dots, photovoltaic devices, organic dyes, anthracene, energy transfer
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Other Physics Topics
Research subject
Experimental Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-75904DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00802ISI: 000487179100015Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85070854402OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-75904DiVA, id: diva2:1349436
Note
Validerad;2019;Nivå 2;2019-10-17 (johcin)
2019-09-092019-09-092020-08-26Bibliographically approved