1. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Cross-sections of a DIPV system based on light projection. (a) When the dye molecules are aligned parallel to the plates, more photons escape and (b) most of the photons are guided to the solar cell in the case of vertical alignment. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

2. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Absorption of the laser light by the LC/dye cell. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

3. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Photographs of the LC/dye cell excited by a narrow beam of laser light. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

4. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Profile for the excitation laser beam and profiles of the PL intensity along the y axis. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

5. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. PL intensity profiles at zero bias evaluated in a wider dynamic range. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

6. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Experimental setup for evaluating luminance contrast. Laser light generates light for displaying information. A fluorescent lamp is used to simulate an ambient light source. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

7. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Spectra of the light measured by the setup in Fig. 6. The power of the laser beam is 1.69 mW. For lamp excitation, the whole cell is illuminated uniformly at 800lx. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

8. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Procedure of eliminating the lamp spectrum. A spectrum of the lamp measured separately without the cell being scaled (green broken curve) and is subtracted from the measured spectrum (red dotted curve). The result (black solid curve) is the PL from the cell generated by the lamp. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

9. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Effect of attaching a polarizer on the observer side of the cell. (a) For laser excitation, the reduction in the PL intensity is only about 20% when the transmission axis is along the x-axis, and (b) for the lamp excitation, it is more than 70%. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001

10. Date of download: 6/27/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Optical power emitted from an edge surface of the cell. (a) Optical power measured at each position on the two edge surfaces. Lines are for guiding eyes only, and (b) sum of the measured power for the two edge surfaces at each biasing condition. The power of the excitation light is 1.75 mW incident at the center of the cell. Figure Legend: From: Characterization of a liquid crystal/dye cell for a future application in display- integrated photovoltaics J. Photon. Energy. 2016;6(2):028001. doi:10.1117/1.JPE.6.028001