Design it with LSCs; an exploration of applications for Luminescent Solar Concentrator PV technologies

This paper shows the results of a design study on possible applications for Luminescent Solar Concentrator PV technologies. The study focused on product integration of LSC PV technologies and was executed by students of Industrial Design Engineering at University of Twente (NL). In total 16 different and highly innovative conceptual designs resulted from this project, which were prototyped at scale to show their feasibility and integration features. In this paper we present several concepts, and discuss relevant findings for the integration of LSC PV technologies in future products and buildings. It is shown that the typical material properties of LSCs; low cost, colorful, bendable, and transparent do not only offer a lot of design freedom, but also offer excellent possibilities to incorporate this technology into the overall function and experience of applications.