Researchers at Rice University in Texas have built a windowpane that can redirect sunlight or illumination from outdoors and indoors to edge-band solar cells. They ...

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are a promising class of devices designed to harvest diffuse solar radiation by employing a transparent matrix embedded with luminescent materials. These ...

A Dutch-Australian research team has developed a 1 cm3 luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) device, equipped with 20%-efficient bifacial silicon PV cells, which can be used and assembled in several ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSC) For Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Cells" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Report Includes: An overview of ...

A luminescent solar concentrator is an emerging sunlight harvesting technology that has the potential to disrupt the way we think about energy; It could turn any window into a daytime power source.

Since its invention in the 1970s, the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) has aimed to enhance solar energy capture by using luminescent materials to convert and concentrate sunlight onto ...

(Nanowerk News) Empa researchers succeeded in developing a material that works like a luminescent solar concentrator and can even be applied to textiles. This opens up numerous possibilities for ...

Dublin, Jan. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSC) For Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Cells" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report presents ...

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs), in which solar light activates luminescent materials and the re-emitted light is directed onto photovolataic (PV) materials, are known to be potential route to ...

While most of the light concentrated to the edge of the silicon-based luminescent solar concentrator is actually invisible, we can better see the concentration effect by the naked eye when the slab is ...

Bright solar concentrators for clothing In collaboration with colleagues from two other Empa labs, Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Advanced Fibers, Boesel's team added two different luminescent ...

(Phys.org) —Solar cells are often made of expensive materials, which is why much research is focused on finding cheaper materials in order to reduce the overall cost of solar energy. Another way ...