Performance of Luminescent Solar Concentrators Integrated with Negative Replica Layers of Leaf Surface Microstructures

In this study, a negative replica layer of leaf surface microstructures was used to cover the top surfaces of semitransparent thin-film luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) to enhance the concentrators' performance. With low reflection on the air-glass interface of the glass plate in a thin-f...

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Published in:Materials 2022-03, Vol.15 (7), p.2353
Main Authors: Chen, Bing-Mau, Fu, Han-Yi, Ying, Shang-Ping, Hsu, Ting-Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Building envelopes
Concentrators
Efficiency
Glass plates
Haze
Light
Microstructure
Phosphors
Photovoltaic cells
Quantum dots
Sunlight
Temperature
Thin films
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Summary:In this study, a negative replica layer of leaf surface microstructures was used to cover the top surfaces of semitransparent thin-film luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) to enhance the concentrators' performance. With low reflection on the air-glass interface of the glass plate in a thin-film LSC, a negative replica layer enables the scattering of incident sunlight and increases the path of light transmitted into the LSC and the thin phosphor layer at the bottom surface of the LSC. The incident sunlight is therefore more likely to interact with the phosphor particles in the thin-film phosphor layer, thereby enhancing the performance of the LSC. In this study, semitransparent thin-film LSCs with different inorganic phosphors were examined. The experimental results revealed that the optical collection efficiency of semitransparent thin-film LSCs covered with negative replica layers of leaf surface microstructures was higher than that of the semitransparent thin-film LSCs without negative replica layers. Furthermore, the LSCs with negative replica layers with high haze ratios exhibited high optical collection efficiency. Integrating negative replica layers of leaf surface microstructures as semitransparent layers in thin-film LSCs may optimize the application of LSCs in building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs).
ISSN:1996-1944
1996-1944
DOI:10.3390/ma15072353