Fiber-Based Luminescent Solar Concentrator (LSC) Fabrics

 

Fiber-based LSC fabrics comprise optical fibers and rely on their function as an alternative for solar panels. The fibers and a photovoltaic (pv) cell collaborately generate an electric current because the core of each fiber absorb and re-emit light toward this cell. Fiber cores act as a tunnel while solar photons, emitted from the sun, are the cars traveling through the tunnel toward the cell as this process is known as total internal reflection. Fiber cores guide photons to the pv or solar cell and this cell then consumes all energy directed toward it and converts the energy into electricity. Because the presence of each fiber in LSC fabrics are vital, the objective for this project included observing fluorescent tests of different heat and time thermal processes needed to make fiber cores. After creating varied heat and time samples of fiber cores all conditions were examined to see which procedure absorbed then funneled the most light (photons). Bigger quantities of light that’s collected from a sample mean that fabricated condition has more photons that can travel to the pv cell which creates higher amounts of electricity. Ultimately, LSC fabrics result to a portable method that’s capable of charging cell phones, laptops, and other technologies when bags or carrying cases are near sunlight; greater photon (sunlight) presence promotes more electricity that operationally charge technology devices.  

 

 

 

•Every fiber consists of a core and cladding.

 

•The core of the fiber is within the cladding and

it withholds intercepted light due to

total internal reflection.

 

•Total internal reflection occurs due to the

existence of fiber optic cores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabrication Procedure of Fiber Cores

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fluorescence Experimental Method 

             •The fluorescence equipment determined quantities of light at specific wavelengths.

•Laser contact upon the fiber sample delivered a spectra analysis and the Ocean Optics equipment then digitalized each spectra suite.

•The scanned spectra conveyed which wavelength had the highest intensity.

•The wavelength that produced the highest intensity was needed because solar cell efficiency is determined by incoming light magnitudes.

•Greater intensity quantities guarantee more electric current.