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Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-film Solar cells with Plasmonic-enhanced Light-trapping
Published on: July 2, 2012
Monocrystalline silicon photovoltaic luminescent solar concentrator with 4.2% power conversion efficiency
L Desmet1, A J M Ras, D K G de Boer
1Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
We report conversion efficiencies of experimental single and dual light guide luminescent solar concentrators. We have built several 5 cm × 5 cm and 10× cm × 10 cm luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) demonstrators consisting of c-Si photovoltaic cells attached to luminescent light guides of Lumogen F Red 305 dye and perylene perinone dye. The highest overall efficiency obtained was 4.2% on a 5 cm × 5 cm stacked dual light guide using both luminescent materials. To our knowledge, this is the highest reported experimentally determined efficiency for c-Si photovoltaic-based LSCs. Furthermore, we also produced a 5 cm × 5 cm LSC specimen based on an inorganic phosphor layer with an overall efficiency of 2.5%.
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