Studies of photophysical properties of solid-state carbon nano-dot thin films for greener luminescent solar concentrators
2018
Hochschulschrift
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A luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) is consisted of the luminophores and a waveguide that can be used to spatially concentrate both direct and diffused sunlight without the need of complex and expensive solar-tracking and cooling systems. Recently, colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) with some unique photophysical properties have attracted much attention as the luminophores in LSCs. However, most of mature CQDs contain heavy metals and need to be synthesized in the hazardous organic solvent. In addition, they also suffered from concentration-induced quenching (CIQ), thus the loading concentration of luminophores doped in LSCs is restricted. Unfortunately, this would reduce the light-absorbing efficiency, leading to large transmission losses. To address all the issues mentioned previously, organosilane-functionalized carbon nanodots (Si-CNDs) were synthesized based on cost-effective, earth-abundant precursors using a simple hydrothermal method. Such Si-CNDs exhibit some unique photophysical properties, including large absorption coefficient, high PL quantum yields (PL-QYs) and resistance to CIQ effect. Due to good film-forming properties, greener LSCs with different loading concentrations can be simply fabricated by directly cross-linking Si-CNDs on the glass waveguide. The LSCs are highly transparent even under high loading concentration up to 75 wt%, indicating high uniformity of Si-CND distribution. The LSCs with 25 wt% loading contents still possess high solid-state PL-QYs up to ~41% upon the calibration of reabsorption losses and high internal quantum efficiency of ~23% due to low scattering losses. We expect our demonstration can pave a way to further design efficient greener LSCs after further reducing the reabsorption losses.
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Studies of photophysical properties of solid-state carbon nano-dot thin films for greener luminescent solar concentrators
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Yao-Hsuan, WU ; 巫耀玄 |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2018 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift |
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