Luminescent Solar Panel

By far the most amazing aspect of the product though comes from the use of glass.

Luminescent solar panel.

Polycarbonate panels like the ones that i use for parasol modular can be coated and filled with luminescent molecules that can absorb incident sunlight and re emit it at longer wavelengths. The luminescent ingredients can be dialed in to absorb and re emit at selected wavelengths. Luminescent solar concentrators lsc are a very simple concept. These efficient modular solar units could easily be hung on the side of a building.

Solar cells mounted on the larger edge of the lsc convert energy captured from the sun into electric power. A luminescent solar concentrator lsc is a device for concentrating radiation solar radiation in particular to produce electricity. Retrofitted onto current solar panel systems luminescent solar concentrators could increase efficiency by 50 percent source. The dye absorbs light and then fluoresces creating a glow that propagates by total internal reflection to the edge of the sheet where the light is absorbed by a narrow solar cell.

A luminescent solar concentrator lsc is made from plastic or glass with fluorescent materials or quantum dots in or on it. This technology allows the seamless integration of photovoltaics and plastics. This is a promising technology because it allows a large collecting area of virtually transparent glass with a comparatively small area of expensive solar cells. Luminescent solar concentrators operate on the principle of collecting radiation over a large area converting it by luminescence specifically by fluorescence and directing the generated radiation into a relatively small output target.

The hope for the lsc is that cheap dyes or phosphors can make the system inexpensive as well as tolerant of defects or angle. The lscs considered in this study are made of transparent plastic with a film of photoluminescent particles on the back similar to those used in leds.