Towards a standard approach for annual energy production of concentrator-based building-integrated photovoltaics

The Role of Solar Spectral Beam Splitters in Enhancing the Solar-Energy Conversion of Existing PV and PVT Technologies

“…Encouraging aesthetic possibilities were produced by Aghaei et al, who produced 19 different mosaic configurations with a wide range of colours [51]. This process provides a few benefits, the first of which is the aesthetic feature of selecting a colour which can appeal to commercial markets [48,52,53]. The second benefit is the provision of a spectral-shift response to increase the wavelength range over which the solar cell can harvest photons [48,54].…”

“…Another major benefit of LSCs is the potential to provide a low levelised cost of energy (LCOE) due to the low costs which are associated with the fabrication of these devices. This is thoroughly outlined by Currie et al, with reports indicating an LCOE of approximately EUR 0.2-EUR 0.3/kWh [52,55,56]. An LSC device is not bounded to the fixed planar geometries of traditional designs, as novel geometries can be produced.…”

“…Current LSC research is focused on investigating pathways through which to integrate these devices into the construction industry to produce building-integrated LSCs [52,67,68]. The unique properties of LSC fabrication, which allow them to be tailored to specific colours, makes them very desirable for architects who are attempting to incorporate aesthetics and functionality into their designs.…”

“…In particular, the use of PDMS allows the development of a method for fabricating a series of curved surfaces (Figure 5a) and flexible cylinders (Figure 5b), which can be implemented in a large array of architectures and designs for seamless integration with operational PVs. Such designs can be used as concentrators to direct incident light towards a PV cell for higher solar-conversion efficiencies and can even be used in combination with luminescent dyes for architectural design integration and aesthetics (Figure 5b) [49,52,67]. Carbone et al assessed the viability of a flexible PDMS disk for use in LSC applications [107].…”

Engineering the Optical Properties of Eco‐Friendly CuGaS2/ZnS and CuGaInS2/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Dots for High‐Performance Tandem Luminescent Solar Concentrators

“…[ 14 ] These structural simplicity, designable aesthetic potential, angle independence, and cost‐effective features of LSCs are promising to achieve future low‐cost and high‐efficiency BIPVs. [ 5,12a,15 ] To develop high‐efficiency LSCs, the fluorescent materials prefer to be highly emissive with minimal overlap of their absorption and emission spectrum (i.e., a large Stokes shift) [12a,16] . To date, several types of materials, such as organic dyes, polymers, and colloidal quantum dots (QDs), have been exploited as fluorescent materials in high‐performing LSCs, among which the QDs have been positioned as superior light emitting materials due to their unique size/composition‐dependent and outstanding optical properties including tunable Stokes shift and high‐photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY).…”