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- Title
Carbon nanodot with highly localized excitonic emission for efficient luminescent solar concentrator.
- Authors
Zang, Jinhao; Jiao, Fuhang; Wei, Jianyong; Lou, Qing; Zheng, Guangsong; Shen, Chenglong; Deng, Yuan; Soheyli, Ehsan; Sahraei, Reza; Yang, Xun; Zang, Huaping; Zhou, Weimin; Fan, Wei; Wang, Shaoyi; Dong, Lin; Shan, Chong-Xin
- Abstract
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are attractive for the easy operation and high compatibility with building integrated photovoltaics due to their low cost, large-scale and applicability. However, underutilized sunlight in visible wavelengths often impedes the advance of LSCs. Here, we demonstrate an orange-emitting carbon nanodots-based LSC (O-CDs) with excitation concentrated in the visible wavelengths. The orange-emitting carbon nanodots (O-CDs) with highly localized excitonic emission are prepared via atomic condensation of doped pyrrolic nitrogen, delivering a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 80 % and a suitable Stokes shift with absorption spectrum situated in the visible region. The O-CDs are embedded in polyvinylpyrrolidone to obtain a highly transparent, stable and environmentally friendly O-CDs-based LSC. Thanks to efficient utilization of solar radiation in visible areas and well match between the emission of O-CDs and the response bands of photovoltaic cells, the O-CDs-based LSC reveals an optical conversion efficiency of 5.17 %, superior to that of most carbon nanodots-based LSCs. These results provide an effective strategy to develop carbon-based luminescent concentrated materials for architectural integrated photovoltaic technology.
- Subjects
SOLAR concentrators; BUILDING-integrated photovoltaic systems; PHOTOVOLTAIC cells; VISIBLE spectra; SOLAR radiation; STOKES shift; PHOTOVOLTAIC power systems; CARBON
- Publication
Nanophotonics (21928606), 2023, Vol 12, Issue 21, p4117
- ISSN
2192-8606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2023-0578