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Controlling emission using one dimensional integrated photonic fluorescent collectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2015

Thomas S. Parel  and
Tomas Markvart
Thomas S. Parel*
Affiliation:
Solar Energy Laboratory Faculty of Engineering and the Environment University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom
Tomas Markvart
Affiliation:
Solar Energy Laboratory Faculty of Engineering and the Environment University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom
*
*(Email: tsp105@soton.ac.uk)
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Abstract

It is known that photonic crystals can be used to suppress spontaneous emission. This property of photonic crystals has been investigated for suppressing and decreasing the propagation of photons within loss cones in fluorescent collectors. Fluorescent collectors can concentrate light onto solar cells by trapping fluorescence through total internal reflection. In an ideal fluorescent collector the major obstacle to efficient photon transport is the loss of photons through the top and bottom escape cones. One possible method to decrease this loss and improve the efficiency of these devices is to fabricate one-dimensional photonic crystals doped with fluorescent molecules. If these photonic crystals are tuned to exhibit a photonic band gap in the escape cone directions and at the emission frequencies of the fluorescent molecules, a suppression of the escape cone emission and an enhancement of the edge emission is expected. In this paper, we detail the fabrication of a one dimensional integrated photonic collector and show the suppression of the escape cone emission. This suppression of the escape cone will be shown to correspond to the photonic band gap and the modifications to the edge emission will be shown to correspond well with so called Fabry Perot modes. The control of emission inside fluorescent collectors opens up a number of additional possibilities for efficiency enhancements that will also be discussed.

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photovoltaicsol-geloptical properties
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MRS Advances , Volume 1 , Issue 59: Energy and Sustainability , 2016 , pp. 3909 - 3914
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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