Nanostructured Upconvertors for Advanced Solar Energy Harvesting

用于先进太阳能收集的纳米结构上变频器

• 批准号: FT130100177
• 负责人: Prof Timothy Schmidt
• 金额: $ 59.17万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2018-04-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT130100177
• 关键词: Nanostructured; Upconvertors; Advanced; Solar; Energy

The efficiency of many solar energy conversion processes, such as solar photovoltaic and solar hydrogen, can be improved by management of the solar spectrum. One photon management strategy is up-conversion, whereby two lower energy, unusable photons are conjoined to bring about a higher energy photon. Photochemical up-conversion, where light harvesting and energy-pooling is performed in organic molecules, has been rapidly advanced in recent years, and promises to deliver the efficiencies required to find real-world application. This project brings together laser spectroscopy, organic and materials chemistry and nanotechnology to realise efficient up-convertors which will be applied to solar cells and solar fuels.

许多太阳能转换过程的效率，如太阳能光伏和太阳能氢，可以通过管理太阳光谱来提高。一种光子管理策略是上转换，即两个低能量、不可用的光子结合在一起，产生一个更高能量的光子。光化学上转换，在有机分子中进行光收集和能量汇集，近年来发展迅速，并有望提供实际应用所需的效率。该项目将激光光谱学、有机和材料化学以及纳米技术结合起来，实现将应用于太阳能电池和太阳能燃料的高效上转换器。