Solar concentrators are devices that focus sunlight onto a smaller area, making it more intense. This helps to capture and concentrate solar energy for various uses, like heating water or generating electricity. Full definition
We report single - and tandem - waveguide organic solar concentrators with quantum efficiencies exceeding 50 % and projected power conversion efficiencies as high as 6.8 %. (science.sciencemag.org)
Lunt's team at Michigan State's College of Engineering is developing a transparent luminescent solar concentrator that can be applied over an area as big as a window or as small as a smartphone display. (scientificamerican.com)
The technology — dubbed «photon enhanced thermionic emission,» or PETE, for short — would work best in solar concentrators like parabolic dishes that can reach 800 degrees Celsius. (scientificamerican.com)