The Renaissance of Luminescent Solar Concentrators: The Role of Inorganic Nanomaterials

While luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) have a simple architecture—a transparent matrix embedding a luminescent fluorophore coupled with solar cells at the lateral side of the LSC slab—multipl ...

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