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Recent Progress and Prospect of Luminescent Solar Concentrator

발광형 태양광 집광기 최신 연구 동향

  • Song, Hyung-Jun (Department of Safety Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
  • 송형준 (서울과학기술대학교 안전공학과)
  • Received : 2019.07.09
  • Accepted : 2019.07.13
  • Published : 2019.08.30
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Abstract

Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC), consisting of luminophore included glass or substrate with edge-mounted photovoltaic cell, is semi-transparent, energy harvesting devices. The luminophore absorbs incident solar light and re-emit photons, while the waveguide plate allows re-emitted photons to reach edge or bottom mounted photovoltaic cells with reduced losses. If the area of LSC is much larger than that of photovoltaic cell, this system can effectively concentrate solar light. In order to improve the performance of LSC, new materials and optical structures have been suggested by many research groups. For decreasing re-abosprion losses, it is essential to minimize the overlap between absorption and photoluminescence solar spectrum of luminophoroe. Moreover, the combination of selective top reflector and reflective optical cavity structure significantly boosts the waveguide efficiency in the LSC. As a result of many efforts, commercially available LSCs have been demonstrated and verified in the outdoor. Also, it is expected to generate electricity in buildings by replacing conventional glass to LSCs.

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