Luminescent solar concentrators with a bottom-mounted photovoltaic cell: performance optimization and power gain analysis

Ningning Zhang; Yi Zhang; Jun Bao; Feng Zhang; Sen Yan; Song Sun; Chen Gao

doi:10.3788/COL201715.063501

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 15, Issue 6, 063501 (2017)

Luminescent solar concentrators with a bottom-mounted photovoltaic cell: performance optimization and power gain analysis

Ningning Zhang¹, Yi Zhang², Jun Bao^1、3、*, Feng Zhang¹, Sen Yan¹, Song Sun¹, and Chen Gao^1、3、**

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¹National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, China

²College of Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an 625014, China

³CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, China

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Ningning Zhang, Yi Zhang, Jun Bao, Feng Zhang, Sen Yan, Song Sun, Chen Gao. Luminescent solar concentrators with a bottom-mounted photovoltaic cell: performance optimization and power gain analysis[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(6): 063501 Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plate luminescent solar concentrators with a bottom-mounted (BM-LSCs) photovoltaic (PV) cell are fabricated by using a mixture of Lumogen Red 305 and Yellow 083 fluorescent dyes and a commercial monocrystalline silicon cell. The fabricated LSC with dye concentrations of 40 ppm has the highest power gain of 1.50, which is the highest value reported for the dye-doped PMMA plate LSCs. The power gain of the LSC comes from three parts: the waveguide light, the transmitted light, and the reflected light from a white reflector, and their contributions are analyzed quantitatively. The results suggest that the BM-LSCs have great potential for future low-cost PV devices in building integrated PV applications.