Use of Inorganic Materials for Phosphorescent Concentrating Solar Cells

摘要

It has been demonstrated that phosphorescent transition metal complexes can provide a solution to the problem of reabsorption of luminescence in Luminescent Solar Collection (LSC) dyes. The major difficulty encountered in the development of such inorganic dyes was insufficiently high phosphorescence quantum yields. The highest yields measured were too low by a factor of 3 or more. The major effort in the program was directed at obtaining higher quantum yields. One promising metal-porphyrin complex, Pt-(EtiO), which should have a room temperature quantum yield of about 0.7 according to literature reports, was only partially evaluated. (ERA citation 08:009532)