Consensus statement: Standardized reporting of power-producing luminescent solar concentrator performance

Creators: Yang, Chenchen¹; Atwater, Harry A.²; Baldo, Marc A.³; Baran, Derya⁴; Barile, Christopher J.⁵; Barr, Miles C.⁶; Bates, Matthew¹; Bawendi, Moungi G.³; Bergren, Matthew R.⁷; Borhan, Babak¹; Brabec, Christoph J.^{8, 9, 10}; Brovelli, Sergio¹¹; Bulović, Vladimir³; Ceroni, Paola¹²; Debije, Michael G.¹³; Delgado-Sanchez, Jose-Maria¹⁴; Dong, Wen-Ji¹⁵; Duxbury, Phillip M.¹; Evans, Rachel C.¹⁶; Forrest, Stephen R.¹⁷; Gamelin, Daniel R.¹⁸; Giebink, Noel C.¹⁹; Gong, Xiao²⁰; Griffini, Gianmarco²¹; Guo, Fei²²; Herrera, Christopher K.¹; Ho-Baillie, Anita W. Y.²³; Holmes, Russell J.²⁴; Hong, Sung-Kyu²⁵; Kirchartz, Thomas^{26, 27}; Levine, Benjamin G.²⁸; Li, Hongbo²⁹; Li, Yilin³⁰; Liu, Dianyi³¹; Loi, Maria A.⁹; Luscombe, Christine K.¹⁸; Makarov, Nikolay S.⁷; Mateen, Fahad²⁵; Mazzaro, Raffaello¹²; McDaniel, Hunter⁷; McGehee, Michael D.^{32, 33}; Meinardi, Francesco¹¹; Menéndez-Velázquez, Amador; Min, Jie^{34, 35}; Mitzi, David B.³⁶; Moemeni, Mehdi¹; Moon, Jun Hyuk³⁷; Nattestad, Andrew³⁸; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K.³⁹; Nogueira, Ana F.⁴⁰; Paetzold, Ulrich W.⁴¹; Patrick, David L.⁴²; Pucci, Andrea⁴³; Rand, Barry P.⁴⁴; Reichmanis, Elsa⁴⁵; Richards, Bryce S.⁴¹; Roncali, Jean⁴⁶; Rosei, Federico; Schmidt, Timothy W.⁴⁷; So, Franky⁴⁸; Tu, Chang-Ching⁴⁹; Vahdani, Aria¹; van Sark, Wilfried G. J. H. M.⁵⁰; Verduzco, Rafael³⁰; Vomiero, Alberto^{51, 52}; Wong, Wallace W. H.⁵³; Wu, Kaifeng⁵⁴; Yip, Hin-Lap^{55, 56}; Zhang, Xiaowei^{57, 58}; Zhao, Haiguang⁵⁹; Lunt, Richard R.¹

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2. California Institute of Technology
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
5. University of Nevada Reno
6. Ubiquitous Energy (United States)
7. UbiQD (United States)
8. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
9. University of Groningen
10. Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg
11. University of Milano-Bicocca
12. University of Bologna
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29. Beijing Institute of Technology
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32. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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35. Zhengzhou University
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38. Monash University
39. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
40. State University of Campinas
41. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
42. Western Washington University
43. University of Pisa
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47. UNSW Sydney
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50. Utrecht University
51. Ca' Foscari University of Venice
52. Luleå University of Technology
53. University of Melbourne
54. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
55. South China University of Technology
56. City University of Hong Kong
57. Ningbo University
58. Nanjing University
59. Qingdao University

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Abstract

Fair and meaningful device performance comparison among luminescent solar concentrator-photovoltaic (LSC-PV) reports cannot be realized without a general consensus on reporting standards in LSC-PV research. Therefore, it is imperative to adopt standardized characterization protocols for these emerging types of PV devices that are consistent with other PV devices. This commentary highlights several common limitations in LSC literature and summarizes the best practices moving forward to harmonize with standard PV reporting, considering the greater nuances present with LSC-PV. Based on these practices, a checklist of actionable items is provided to help standardize the characterization/reporting protocols and offer a set of baseline expectations for authors, reviewers, and editors. The general consensus combined with the checklist will ultimately guide LSC-PV research towards reliable and meaningful advances.

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© 2021 Published by Elsevier. Available online 19 January 2022. C.Y. and R.R.L. acknowledge financial support under National Science Foundation grant CBET-1702591. D.R.G. thanks the National Science Foundation (DMR-1719797) for support. A.H.-B. is supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship FT210100210. F.R. is grateful to the Canada Research Chairs program for partial salary support. A. Vomiero acknowledges financial support from the Kempe Foundation and the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Declaration of interests. M.C.B. (CTO), V.B., and R.R.L. are founders and non-majority owners of Ubiquitous Energy, Inc., a company working to commercialize TPV and TLSC technologies. H.M. (CEO) is a founder and non-majority owner of UbiQD, Inc., a company working to commercialize LSC and TLSC technologies. M.R.B and N.S.M. are non-majority owners of UbiQD, Inc. D.R.G. is a founder and non-majority owner of BlueDot Photonics, Inc., a company working to commercialize QC spectral-downconversion PV technologies. F. Meinardi is a founder and non-majority owner of Glass to Power SpA, a company working to commercialize LSC technologies.

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