Doped Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Reabsorption-Free Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Francesco Meinardi, Quinten A. Akkerman, Francesco Bruni, Sungwook Park, Michele Mauri, Zhiya Dang, Liberato Manna, Sergio Brovelli

ACS Energy Letters · 2017 · 280 citations · 88 references

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NCs as reabsorption-free emitters for large-area LSCs. Light propagation measurements and Monte Carlo simulations indicate that the dopant emission is unaffected by reabsorption. Nanocomposite LSCs were fabricated via mass copolymerization of acrylate monomers, ensuring thermal and mechanical stability and optimal compatibility of the NCs, with fully preserved emission efficiency. As a result, perovskite LSCs behave closely to ideal devices, in which all portions of the illuminated area contribute equally to the total optical power. These results demonstrate the potential of doped perovskite NCs for LSCs, as well as for other photonic technologies relying on low-attenuation long-range optical wave guiding.

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