Spectral coupling of fluorescent solar concentrators to photovoltaic cells enhanced with Au nano-particles
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Authors
Elbibary, Mohamed
Issue Date
2013-05
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Mechanical engineering
Alternative Title
Abstract
In this thesis, the performance of a luminescent solar concentrator(LSC) was investigated. The LSC output flux was tuned to match the peak spectral response of plasmonically enhanced solar cells. Numerical results predicting the maximum efficiency of the LSC-solar cell system were obtained using Monte-Carlo simulations for ray tracing, where the solar cell spectral response was used.
Description
May 2013
School of Engineering
School of Engineering
Full Citation
Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY