Ultralight Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Space Solar Power Systems

David R. Needell; Haley Bauser; Megan Phelan; Colton R. Bukowsky; Ognjen Ilic; Michael D. Kelzenberg; Harry A. Atwater

doi:10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8981161

Ultralight Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Space Solar Power Systems

David R. Needell, Haley Bauser, Megan Phelan, Colton R. Bukowsky, Ognjen Ilic, Michael D. Kelzenberg, Harry A. Atwater

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Abstract

Space-based solar power systems (SSPS) offer a renewable source of energy generation that features higher power production than terrestrial photovoltaics (PV) systems with visibly unobstructed access to direct sunlight. Because of the high launch and deployment costs for SSPS, PV arrays intended for such applications are designed so as to maximize the specific power (W/kg) of the array. Here we present a first analysis for a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) module designed for SSPS. LSC devices absorb and trap incident sunlight in a planar dielectric waveguide through photon downshifting via absorption and Stokes-shifted emission from embedded luminophores. Emitted photons are trapped within the waveguide and concentrated onto small area solar cells, spectrally matched to the luminophore band edge. Here we investigate the influence of luminophore material and concentration factor on the LSC specific power. We develop an LSC system design that can achieve up to 1.8 kW/kg.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	2798-2801
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728104942
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8981161
State	Published - Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019 - Chicago, United States Duration: Jun 16 2019 → Jun 21 2019

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Name	Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
ISSN (Print)	0160-8371

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Conference	46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	6/16/19 → 6/21/19

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Keywords

Monte Carlo methods
photoluminescence
photovoltaic cells
quantum dots
space technology

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Needell, D. R., Bauser, H., Phelan, M., Bukowsky, C. R., Ilic, O., Kelzenberg, M. D., & Atwater, H. A. (2019). Ultralight Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Space Solar Power Systems. In 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019 (pp. 2798-2801). Article 8981161 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8981161

Ultralight Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Space Solar Power Systems. / Needell, David R.; Bauser, Haley; Phelan, Megan et al.
2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. p. 2798-2801 8981161 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference).

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Needell, DR, Bauser, H, Phelan, M, Bukowsky, CR, Ilic, O, Kelzenberg, MD & Atwater, HA 2019, Ultralight Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Space Solar Power Systems. in 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019., 8981161, Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 2798-2801, 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019, Chicago, United States, 6/16/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8981161

Needell DR, Bauser H, Phelan M, Bukowsky CR, Ilic O, Kelzenberg MD et al. Ultralight Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Space Solar Power Systems. In 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2019. p. 2798-2801. 8981161. (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference). doi: 10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8981161

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