Solar fiber-optic mini-dishes: A new approach to the efficient collection of sunlight

Solar Energy

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 159-170

  Feuermann, Daniel ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

SOLAR FIBER OPTIC MINIDISH;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 0033077450     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00129-7     Document Type: Article

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