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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
May. 08, 2019
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Richard R. Lunt, III, Williamston, MI (US);
Babak Borhan, Okemos, MI (US);
Benjamin G. Levine, East Lansing, MI (US);
Wei Sheng, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jun Zhang, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Chenchen Yang, Holt, MI (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
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.