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Title: | Upconversion in solar cells | Authors: | van Sark, WGJHM DE WILD, Jessica Rath, JK Meijerink, A Schropp, REI |
Issue Date: | 2013 | Publisher: | SPRINGEROPEN | Source: | Nanoscale Research Letters, 8 (1) (Art N° 81) | Abstract: | The possibility to tune chemical and physical properties in nanosized materials has a strong impact on a variety of technologies, including photovoltaics. One of the prominent research areas of nanomaterials for photovoltaics involves spectral conversion. Modification of the spectrum requires down- and/or upconversion or downshifting of the spectrum, meaning that the energy of photons is modified to either lower (down) or higher (up) energy. Nanostructures such as quantum dots, luminescent dye molecules, and lanthanide-doped glasses are capable of absorbing photons at a certain wavelength and emitting photons at a different (shorter or longer) wavelength. We will discuss upconversion by lanthanide compounds in various host materials and will further demonstrate upconversion to work for thin-film silicon solar cells. | Keywords: | Upconversion;Photovoltaics;Thin-film silicon;Spectral modification;Lanthanides | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/31693 | ISSN: | 1931-7573 | e-ISSN: | 1556-276X | DOI: | 10.1186/1556-276X-8-81 | ISI #: | WOS:000316576600001 | Rights: | 2013 van Sark et al.; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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