УДК: 535.37

New luminescent glasses and prospects of using them in solar energy

Afanas’ev V.P., Vasiliev, V.N., Ignatiev, A.I., Kolobkova, E.V., Nikonorov, N.V., Sidorov, A.I., Tsekhomskiy, V.A.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Афанасьев В.П., Васильев В.Н., Игнатьев А.И., Колобкова Е.В., Никоноров Н.В., Сидоров А.И., Цехомский В.А. Новые люминесцентные стекла и стеклокерамики и перспективы их использования в солнечной энергетике // Оптический журнал. 2013. Т. 80. № 10. С. 69–79.

Afanas’ev V. P., Vasil’ev V. N., Ignat’ev A. I., Kolobkova E. V., Nikonorov N. V., Sidorov A. I., Tsekhomskiĭ V. A. New luminescent glasses and prospects of using them in solar energy [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2013. V. 80. № 10. P. 69–79.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

V. P. Afanas’ev, V. N. Vasil’ev, A. I. Ignat’ev, E. V. Kolobkova, N. V. Nikonorov, A. I. Sidorov, and V. A. Tsekhomskiĭ, "New luminescent glasses and prospects of using them in solar energy," Journal of Optical Technology. 80(10), 635-641 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.80.000635

Abstract:

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the luminescence and absorption of glasses with molecular clusters of silver and selenium and nanocrystals of copper chloride and cadmium sulfide from the viewpoint of spectral down-conversion of short-wavelength solar radiation into the spectral interval of the maximum efficiency of the photoelectric converter of a solar cell. It is shown that UV and violet radiation can be efficiently converted into the 450–700-nm spectral region by appropriately choosing the luminescence centers in glass, and this promises to reduce the number of stages in a solar cell.

Keywords:

luminescence, glass, molecular cluster, quantum dot, solar energy

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