On the upconversion efficiency of luminescent materials for effective use in solar cells

Author

Paudel, Hari P. ; Dachhepati, Dillip ; Gautam, Umesh ; Bayat, Khadijeh ; Baroughi, Mahdi Farrokh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

19-24 June 2011

Abstract

Based on the present upconversion efficiency of rare earth doped nanocrystals, we estimated the necessary upconversion efficiency of luminescent materials to effectively enhance the efficiency of solar cells. Emission enhancement of luminescent material by surface plasmons resonance was investigated. The detail study on quenching of enhanced near-field of metallic photonic crystal by luminescent materials was performed by finite difference time domain simulation.

Keywords

doping; finite difference time-domain analysis; luminescence; nanostructured materials; photonic crystals; radiation quenching; rare earth metals; solar cells; surface plasmon resonance; enhanced near-field quenching; finite difference time domain simulation; luminescent material; metallic photonic crystal; rare earth doped nanocrystal; solar cells efficiency enhancement; surface plasmons resonance; upconversion efficiency; Absorption; Materials; Nanoparticles; Photonic crystals; Photonics; Photovoltaic cells; Plasmons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011 37th IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9966-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186102

Filename

6186102