Michigan State University

Benjamin G Levine

Richard R Lunt, Iii

Babak Borhan

Chenchen Yang

Jun Zhang

Wei Sheng

A luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) device is provided. The LSC device has an active layer including a modified luminophore having a polymethine component including a plurality of methine groups (═CH—), where n is an odd integer greater than 1. A hydrogen atom (H) of one of the plurality of methine groups is replaced by one of -ARRor -DR, where A is selected from nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) and D is selected from oxygen (O), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and tellurium (Te), Rand Rare independently selected from H, aliphatic groups, and aromatic groups bound to A through a carbon atom, or Rand Rtogether form an alicyclic ring containing A, and Ris selected from H, aliphatic groups, aromatic groups, and alicyclic groups bound to D through a carbon atom.

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East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Benjamin G Levine