Conspectus Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are light harvesting devices that are
ideally suited to light collection in the urban environment where direct sunlight is often not …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) show great potential for both broadening the
spectral response of photovoltaic devices and facilitating their deployment in urban …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are an emerging technology to collect and channel
light from a large absorption area into a smaller one. They are a complementary technology …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) have attracted extensive interest due to their
potential application in building integrated photovoltaics. As for the emitters, organic dyes …

A novel experimental method is presented to determine the optical efficiency and the loss
channels of a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC). Despite strong promise, LSCs have not …

Developing means to reduce the cost of solar energy is vital to curb our carbon footprint over
the upcoming decades. A luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) is a potential solution as it …

Efficient sunlight harvesting and re-directioning onto small areas has great potential for more
widespread use of precious high-performance photovoltaics but so far intrinsic solar …

This work describes the unexpected alignment of a common perylene bisimide fluorescent
dye (Lumogen Red305) in a host liquid crystal matrix. The negative dichroic fluorophore …

We investigate homeotropically aligned fluorophores and Förster resonance energy transfer
(FRET) for luminescent solar concentrators using Monte-Carlo ray tracing. The homeotropic …

Vertically aligning fluorophores to the surface of a waveguide is known to be an effective
approach to improve the optical quantum efficiency (OQE) of luminescent solar …