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

Creators: Yang, Chenchen; Atwater, Harry A.; Baldo, Marc A.; Baran, Derya; Barile, Christopher J.; Barr, Miles C.; Bates, Matthew; Bawendi, Moungi G.; Bergren, Matthew R.; Borhan, Babak; Brabec, Christoph J.; Brovelli, Sergio; Bulović, Vladimir; Ceroni, Paola; Debije, Michael G.; Delgado-Sanchez, Jose-Maria; Dong, Wen-Ji; Duxbury, Phillip M.; Evans, Rachel C.; Forrest, Stephen R.; Gamelin, Daniel R.; Giebink, Noel C.; Gong, Xiao; Griffini, Gianmarco; Guo, Fei; Herrera, Christopher K.; Ho-Baillie, Anita W. Y.; Holmes, Russell J.; Hong, Sung-Kyu; Kirchartz, Thomas; Levine, Benjamin G.; Li, Hongbo; Li, Yilin; Liu, Dianyi; Loi, Maria A.; Luscombe, Christine K.; Makarov, Nikolay S.; Mateen, Fahad; Mazzaro, Raffaello; McDaniel, Hunter; McGehee, Michael D.; Meinardi, Francesco; Menéndez-Velázquez, Amador; Min, Jie; Mitzi, David B.; Moemeni, Mehdi; Moon, Jun Hyuk; Nattestad, Andrew; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K.; Nogueira, Ana F.; Paetzold, Ulrich W.; Patrick, David L.; Pucci, Andrea; Rand, Barry P.; Reichmanis, Elsa; Richards, Bryce S.; Roncali, Jean; Rosei, Federico; Schmidt, Timothy W.; So, Franky; Tu, Chang-Ching; Vahdani, Aria; van Sark, Wilfried G. J. H. M.; Verduzco, Rafael; Vomiero, Alberto; Wong, Wallace W. H.; Wu, Kaifeng; Yip, Hin-Lap; Zhang, Xiaowei; Zhao, Haiguang; Lunt, Richard R.

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.

Additional Information

© 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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