Outdoor performance of a Plasmonic Luminescent Solar Concentrator
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sethi, Arunima; Ortega, Anita; Chandra, Subhash; McCormack, Sarah
- Source
- 2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2020 47th IEEE. :1346-1348 Jun, 2020
- Subject
- Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Clouds
Optical waveguides
Solar radiation
Nanoparticles
Plasmons
Performance evaluation
Scattering
luminescent solar concentrator
metal nanoparticles
plasmonic interaction
- Language
Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) offer an alternative way to generate electricity from solar radiation in urban environment. One of the main advantages of an LSC is its ability to utilize diffuse solar radiation. However, low efficiency of LSCs have inhibited their widespread commercial application. Plasmonic Luminescent concentrator (PLSC) was recently introduced to decrease the escape cone losses in an LSC. In this work, an optimized PLSC device of size 4.5 × 4.5 × 0.3 cm 3 is tested outdoors along with an LSC device of same dimensions. It is observed that the PLSC device performs 2.8 times better than a blank host matrix.