Plasmonic Enhancement and Directionality of Emission for Advanced Luminescent Solar Devices

Down-Shifting of the Incident Light for Photovoltaic Applications

Author(s): Y. Jestin, S. Chandra, B. Cass, H. Ahmed, S.J. McCormack
Published in: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, 2021, ISBN 9780124095489
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-819727-1.00126-6

External Quantum Efficiency Measurements and Outdoor Characterisation for PV Luminescent Downshifting Devices

Author(s): H. Ahmed, J. Doran, S. J. McCormack
Published in: Renewable Energy and Sustainable Buildings - Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2018, 2020, Page(s) 727-733, ISBN 978-3-030-18487-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18488-9_59

Optical Coupling Sensitivity Study of Luminescent PV Devices Using Monte Carlo Ray-Tracing Model

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Keith Barnham, Sarah J. McCormack
Published in: Renewable Energy and Sustainable Buildings - Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2018, 2020, Page(s) 869-877, ISBN 978-3-030-18487-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18488-9_72

Plasmonic Coupling Enhanced Absorption and Fluorescence Emission in Thin Film Luminescent Solar Concentrator

Author(s): S. Chandra, S. J. McCormack
Published in: Renewable Energy and Sustainable Buildings - Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2018, 2020, Page(s) 149-159, ISBN 978-3-030-18487-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18488-9_11

Plasmonic Interaction in Enhanced Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers for Photovoltaic Devices

Author(s): H. Ahmed, A. Sethi, J. Doran, and S. J. McCormack
Published in: ’Plasmonics: Advances in Research and Applications, Issue Chapter 1, 2017
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Two step continuous method to synthesize colloidal spheroid gold nanorods

Author(s): S. Chandra, J. Doran, S.J. McCormack
Published in: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Issue 459, 2015, Page(s) 218-223, ISSN 0021-9797
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.08.019

Towards Reducing Computational Costs of Finite Difference Time Domain Algorithm in Plasmonic Optical Properties Modelling of Metal Nanoparticles

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Hind Ahmed, Subhash Chandra, Conor Mc Loughlin, Aaron Glenn, Sarah McCormack
Published in: Materials Science Forum, Issue 995, 2020, Page(s) 203-208, ISSN 1662-9752
Publisher: Materials Science Forum
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.995.203

Optimized 3D Finite-Difference-Time-Domain Algorithm to Model the Plasmonic Properties of Metal Nanoparticles with Near-Unity Accuracy

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Sarah J. McCormack
Published in: Chemosensors, Issue 9/5, 2021, Page(s) 114, ISSN 2227-9040
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors9050114

Unified Methodology for Fabrication and Quantification of Gold Nanorods, Gold Core Silver Shell Nanocuboids, and Their Polymer Nanocomposites

Author(s): Arunima Sethi, Mehran Rafiee, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Sarah McCormack
Published in: Langmuir, Issue 35/40, 2019, Page(s) 13011-13019, ISSN 0743-7463
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01481

Broadband plasmonic coupling and enhanced power conversion efficiency in luminescent solar concentrator

Author(s): Arunima Sethi, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Sarah McCormack
Published in: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Issue 203, 2019, Page(s) 110150, ISSN 0927-0248
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2019.110150

Doping Concentration Tuning and Plasmonic Optical Properties Modelling of Metal Nano Particles Utilizing FDTD Method

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Aaron Glenn, Conor Mc Loughlin, Sarah McCormack
Published in: Materials Science Forum, Issue 995, 2020, Page(s) 197-202, ISSN 1662-9752
Publisher: Materials Science Forum
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.995.197

An overview of various configurations of Luminescent Solar Concentrators for photovoltaic applications

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Sarah J. McCormack
Published in: Optical Materials, Issue 91, 2019, Page(s) 212-227, ISSN 0925-3467
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2019.01.007

Absorption coefficient dependent non-linear properties of thin film luminescent solar concentrators

Author(s): S. Chandra, M. Rafiee, J. Doran, S.J. Mc Cormack
Published in: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Issue 182, 2018, Page(s) 331-338, ISSN 0927-0248
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2018.04.004

Plasmonic luminescent down shifting layers for the enhancement of CdTe mini-modules performance

Author(s): H. Ahmed, S.J. McCormack, J. Doran
Published in: Solar Energy, Issue 141, 2017, Page(s) 242-248, ISSN 0038-092X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2016.11.036

Increased short-circuit current density and external quantum efficiency of silicon and dye sensitised solar cells through plasmonic luminescent down-shifting layers

Author(s): H. Ahmed, J. Doran, S.J. McCormack
Published in: Solar Energy, Issue 126, 2016, Page(s) 146-155, ISSN 0038-092X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2016.01.003

External Quantum Efficiency Improvement with Luminescent Downshifting Layers: Experimental and Modelling

Author(s): H. Ahmed, S. J. McCormack, J. Doran
Published in: International Journal of Spectroscopy, Issue 2016, 2016, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 1687-9449
Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
DOI: 10.1155/2016/8543475

Polarization-sensitive anisotropic plasmonic properties of quantum dots and Au nanorod composites

Author(s): Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Sarah McCormack
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 28/14, 2020, Page(s) 20191, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.394560

Outdoor Characterization of a Plasmonic Luminescent Solar Concentrator

Author(s): Arunima Sethi, Subhash Chandra, Anita Ortega, Sarah McCormack
Published in: Plasmonics, 2021, ISSN 1557-1963
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-021-01562-y

Small and large scale plasmonically enhanced luminescent solar concentrator for photovoltaic applications: modelling, optimisation and sensitivity analysis

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Keith Barnham, Sarah J. McCormack
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 29/10, 2021, Page(s) 15031, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.418183

The Viability of Organic Dyes in Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers for the Enhancement of Si Solar Cell Efficiency

Author(s): Aaron Glenn, Conor Mc Loughlin, Hind Ahmed, Hoda Akbari, Subhash Chandra, Sarah McCormack
Published in: Materials Science Forum, Issue 995, 2020, Page(s) 71-76, ISSN 1662-9752
Publisher: Materials Science Forum
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.995.71

Defining critical parameters in a luminescent downshifting layer for PV enhancement

Author(s): Maria F. Ayala Barragan , Subhash Chandra , Bill Cass , Sarah J. McCormack
Published in: WREC 2020, 2020
Publisher: Springer

Characterisation of Luminescent Downshifting Layer effects on Silicon SolarCells

Author(s): Cass, B., Chandra, S., Sethi A., & McCormack, S. J
Published in: WREC 2020, 2020
Publisher: Springer

Plasmonic Quantum Dot Solar Concentrator

Author(s): Chandra, H. Ahmed , J. Doran, S. J. McCormack
Published in: Proc. SPIE 10099, Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices VI, 100990U, 2017
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2252519

Modelling Optimal PV System Sizing for Zero Energy Buildings

Author(s): Morteza Thaherkhani, Marzieh Ahmadi, Subhash Chandra, Mojtaba Nasiri, Sarah J. McCormack
Published in: 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), Issue 2021, 2021, Page(s) 2027-2031, ISBN 978-1-6654-1922-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/pvsc43889.2021.9518756

Application of concentrating plasmonic luminescent down-shifting layers for photovoltaic devices

Author(s): H. Ahmed, M. Rafiee, S. Chandra, A. Sethi, S. J. McCormack
Published in: Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices VI, Issue 23/02/2017, 2017, Page(s) 100991A
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2252575

Gold Nanorods for application in Plasmonic Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Author(s): Sethi Arunima, Subhash Chandra , Hind Ahmed and Sarah J McCormack
Published in: 13th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference C99 (PVSAT-13), Issue 5-7 April 2017, 2017
Publisher: PVSAT-13

Optimization and Photostability Studies of Luminescent Organic Dyes for Solar Devices

Author(s): Sarah Gilligan, Hind Ahmed, Subhash Chandra, and Sarah J McCormack
Published in: 14th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference C99 - PVSAT-14, Issue 18-19 April 2018, 2018
Publisher: PVSAT-14

Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Modelling of Multi-Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cell Enhanced by Luminescent Material

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Hind Ahmed, Subhash Chandra, Arunima Sethi and Sarah J McCormack
Published in: 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Issue 10-15 June 2018, 2018
Publisher: WCPEC-7

Analysis of Luminescent Solar Concentrator Performance Using a Ray Tracing Algorithm: Modelling, Optimization and Validation

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, and Sarah J McCormack
Published in: 13th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference C99 (PVSAT-13), Issue 5-7 April 2017, 2017
Publisher: PVSAT-13

Improving the Mathematical Model for Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers by Investigating their Loss Mechanisms

Author(s): M. Rafiee; H. Ahmed; S. Chandra; S. J. McCormack
Published in: EU PVSEC 2017, Issue 24-29 Sep 2017, 2017
Publisher: PVSEC

Phase transfer and polymer compatibility of gold and gold core silver shell nanorods for luminescent solar devices

Author(s): Sethi Arunima, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, Sarah Gilligan and Sarah J McCormack
Published in: EU Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (PVSEC), Issue 25-29 Sep 2017, 2017
Publisher: PVSEC

Effects of Multiple Organic Dyes for Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers Application

Author(s): Sarah Gilligan, Hind Ahmed, Subhash Chandra, and Sarah J McCormack
Published in: 33rd European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibitions (EU PVSEC 2017), Issue 24-29 Sep 2017, 2017
Publisher: EU PVSEC 2017

Fluorescent Organic Dyes in a Silicone Encapsulant composite for Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Author(s): Sethi Arunima, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed and Sarah J McCormack
Published in: 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7), Issue 10-15 June 2018, 2018
Publisher: WCPEC-7

Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrator: Optimization of Concentration and Thickness

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee, Subhash Chandra, Hind Ahmed, and Sarah J McCormack
Published in: 33rd European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibitions, Issue 24-29 Sep 2017, 2017
Publisher: EU PVSEC 2017

External quantum efficiency measurements and outdoor characterisation for PV Luminescent down shifting devices

Author(s): H. Ahmed, J. Doran, S.J. McCormack
Published in: World Renewable Energy Congress, Issue 30 July-3 August, 2018
Publisher: WREC Proceeding

Optimisation of phosphorescent concentration for luminescent downshifting layer for PV devices.

Author(s): Oliveira, M., Chandra, S., Ahmed, H., and McCormack, S. J.
Published in: The Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference, Issue 6-8 April 2016, 2016
Publisher: UK-ISES

Plasmonic Coupling Controlled Absorption and Emission in Liquid Luminescent Solar Concentrator

Author(s): S. Chandra, S. J. McCormack, J. Doran
Published in: CISBAT - International Conference, Issue 9-11 September 2015, 2015
Publisher: EPFL

Impact of Input Capacitors in Boost Converters on Stability and Maximum Power Point Tracking in PV systems

Author(s): Mojtaba Nasiri, Subhash Chandra, Morteza Taherkhani, Sarah J. McCormack
Published in: 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), Issue 2021, 2021, Page(s) 1004-1008, ISBN 978-1-6654-1922-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/pvsc43889.2021.9518903

Material Characterization of Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers for Solar Cells Application

Author(s): Sarah Gilligan
Published in: MSc Thesis, 2019
Publisher: Trinity College Dublin

3D Modelling Tool to Optimise Advanced Plasmonic Luminescent Solar Devices for Building Integrated Photovoltaic Applications

Author(s): Mehran Rafiee
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2019
Publisher: Trinity College Dublin

Metal Nanoparticles for application in Luminescent Solar Concentrators,

Author(s): Arunima Sethi
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2020
Publisher: Trinity College Dublin

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