Luminescent solar concentrators and related methods of manufacturing
Abstract
Luminescent solar concentrators in accordance with various embodiments of the invention can be designed to minimize photon thermalization losses and incomplete light trapping using various components and techniques. Cadmium selenide core, cadmium sulfide shell (CdSe/CdS) quantum dot (“QD”) technology can be implemented in such devices to allow for near-unity QDs and sufficiently large Stokes shifts. Many embodiments of the invention include a luminescent solar concentrator that incorporates CdSe/CdS quantum dot luminophores. In further embodiments, anisotropic luminophore emission can be implemented through metasurface/plasmonic antenna coupling. In several embodiments, red-shifted luminophores are implemented. Additionally, top and bottom spectrally-selective filters, such as but not limited to selectively-reflective metasurface mirrors and polymeric stack filters, can be implemented to enhance the photon collection efficiency. In some embodiments, luminescent solar concentrator component is optically connected in tandem with a planar Si subcell, forming a micro-optical tandem luminescent solar concentrator.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1892546
- Patent Number(s):
- 11227964
- Application Number:
- 16/113,844
- Assignee:
- California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- DOE Contract Number:
- 113808; AC02-05CH11231; AR0000627; S-143159
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 08/27/2018
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Needell, David R., Bronstein, Noah, Alivisatos, Armand P., Atwater, Harry A., Nuzzo, Ralph, Bauser, Haley, Ilic, Ognjen, He, Junwen, Xu, Lu, Bukowsky, Colton, Darbe, Sunita, Nett, Zach, and Koscher, Brent. Luminescent solar concentrators and related methods of manufacturing. United States: N. p., 2022.
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Needell, David R., Bronstein, Noah, Alivisatos, Armand P., Atwater, Harry A., Nuzzo, Ralph, Bauser, Haley, Ilic, Ognjen, He, Junwen, Xu, Lu, Bukowsky, Colton, Darbe, Sunita, Nett, Zach, & Koscher, Brent. Luminescent solar concentrators and related methods of manufacturing. United States.
Needell, David R., Bronstein, Noah, Alivisatos, Armand P., Atwater, Harry A., Nuzzo, Ralph, Bauser, Haley, Ilic, Ognjen, He, Junwen, Xu, Lu, Bukowsky, Colton, Darbe, Sunita, Nett, Zach, and Koscher, Brent. Tue .
"Luminescent solar concentrators and related methods of manufacturing". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1892546.
@article{osti_1892546,
title = {Luminescent solar concentrators and related methods of manufacturing},
author = {Needell, David R. and Bronstein, Noah and Alivisatos, Armand P. and Atwater, Harry A. and Nuzzo, Ralph and Bauser, Haley and Ilic, Ognjen and He, Junwen and Xu, Lu and Bukowsky, Colton and Darbe, Sunita and Nett, Zach and Koscher, Brent},
abstractNote = {Luminescent solar concentrators in accordance with various embodiments of the invention can be designed to minimize photon thermalization losses and incomplete light trapping using various components and techniques. Cadmium selenide core, cadmium sulfide shell (CdSe/CdS) quantum dot (“QD”) technology can be implemented in such devices to allow for near-unity QDs and sufficiently large Stokes shifts. Many embodiments of the invention include a luminescent solar concentrator that incorporates CdSe/CdS quantum dot luminophores. In further embodiments, anisotropic luminophore emission can be implemented through metasurface/plasmonic antenna coupling. In several embodiments, red-shifted luminophores are implemented. Additionally, top and bottom spectrally-selective filters, such as but not limited to selectively-reflective metasurface mirrors and polymeric stack filters, can be implemented to enhance the photon collection efficiency. In some embodiments, luminescent solar concentrator component is optically connected in tandem with a planar Si subcell, forming a micro-optical tandem luminescent solar concentrator.},
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