University of California

California Institute of Technology

University of Illinois

Brent Koscher

Harry A Atwater

Armand Paul Alivisatos

Ralph G Nuzzo

Colton Bukowsky

Lu Xu

Ognjen Ilic

Noah Bronstein

Sunita Darbe

Haley Bauser

Zach Nett

David R Needell

Junwen He

Luminescent solar concentrators in accordance with various embodiments of the invention can be designed to minimize photon thermalization losses and incomplete light trapping using various components and techniques. Cadmium selenide core, cadmium sulfide shell (CdSe/CdS) quantum dot ('QD') technology can be implemented in such devices to allow for near-unity QDs and sufficiently large Stokes shifts. Many embodiments of the invention include a luminescent solar concentrator that incorporates CdSe/CdS quantum dot luminophores. In further embodiments, anisotropic luminophore emission can be implemented through metasurface/plasmonic antenna coupling. In several embodiments, red-shifted luminophores are implemented. Additionally, top and bottom spectrally-selective filters, such as but not limited to selectively-reflective metasurface mirrors and polymeric stack filters, can be implemented to enhance the photon collection efficiency. In some embodiments, luminescent solar concentrator component is optically connected in tandem with a planar Si subcell, forming a micro-optical tandem luminescent solar concentrator.

Luminescent solar concentrators and related methods of manufacturing

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Brent Koscher