We reviewed the synthetic strategies, structure and properties of C-dots, and summarized the recent progress of C-dots based luminescent solar concentrators.
Highly efficient large-area luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) were demonstrated using colloidal C-dots. The large-area LSC (225 cm2) exhibited an external optical efficiency of 2.2% (under natural sun irradiation, 60 mW cm−2).
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are large-scale sunlight collectors, consisting of fluorophores embedded in waveguides, which can concentrate part of the absorbed sunlight at the borders of the slab through wave-guided...