Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

IEEE

Faculty

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School

School of Engineering / Electron Science Research Institute

RAS ID

18426

Funders

Australian Research Council

Grant Number

ARC Number : LP130100130

Comments

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Alameh K., Vasiliev M., Alghamedi R., Nur-E-Alam M., Rosenberg V. (2014). Solar energy harvesting clear glass for building-integrated photovoltaics. 2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy), HONET-PfE 2014. (pp. 210-213). Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. IEEE. © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. Available here

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate the concept of an energy-harvesting clear glass panel based on the use of all-inorganic luminophores embedded into a lamination layer in conjunction with low-emissivity coatings and CIS solar cells. Most of the visible solar radiation is transmitted through the laminated glass panel while UV radiation is down-converted and guided together with a part of infrared radiation to the edges for conversion to electricity by solar cells integrated at the edges of the glass panel. Experimental results demonstrate that a 10cmx10cm energy-harvesting clear glass can pass about 70% of the visible solar radiation, block 90% of UV and IR solar energy blocking and generate almost 30Wp/m2.

DOI

10.1109/HONET.2014.7029393

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