Design of a nonimaging Fresnel lens for solar concentrators

Solar Energy

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 379-387

  Leutz, Ralf ^a   Suzuki, Akio ^b   Akisawa, Atsushi ^a   Kashiwagi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNESCO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RAY TRACING;

OPTIMUM CONVEX SHAPED NONIMAGING FRESNEL LENS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 0032640983     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0038-092x(98)00143-1     Document Type: Article

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