"After absorbing solar light shining onto a larger-area face of the slab, LSC fluorophores re-emit photons at a lower energy and these photons are guided by total internal reflection to the device edges where they are collected by photovoltaic cells. "
Those re-emitted photons travel through the glass and are collected at the edges of the glass by photovoltaic cells.
Can't do that with solid brick, or wood.
Yeah, I thought the “device edges” were the photovoltaic dots themselves, not the glass. Oh well, it’s still cool because the efficiency is supposedly 100% (which seems to violate the laws of physics, but whatever...)
Yeah, I thought the “device edges” were the photovoltaic dots themselves, not the glass. Oh well, it’s still cool because the efficiency is supposedly 100% (which seems to violate the laws of physics, but whatever...)