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Case 13289

Materials for Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Keywords:

Luminescent solar concentrator, LSCs, up-conversion, anti-stokes emitters, PV

Applications:

Photovoltaic Cells

Problem:

Anti-stokes emitters are inefficient at the up-conversion process.

Technology:

This invention introduces an efficiently-emitting dye, which increases the overall efficiency of the up conversion process. Up-converted radiation in the anti-stokes material is transferred through near-field energy transfer to the dye, which efficiently absorbs infrared light and re-emits it at higher energies, with a more efficient up-conversion process.

Advantages:

• Increases the efficiency of the up conversion process of anti-stokes emitters
• Reduce cost per watt of generated power and the system cost

Inventors:

• Professor Marc A. Baldo(Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)
• Jonathan K. Mapel (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)
• Michael Segal (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)
• Michael J. Currie (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)
• Shalom Goffri (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)

Intellectual Property:

US Patent Application Number 12/691459, filed on January 21, 2010

Publications:

N/A

Related Cases:

13284: Applications for Luminescent Solar Concentrators

13296: Methods for Increasing Power Output from Luminescent Solar Concentrators

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