Ideal concentrators with gaps

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1267-1276

  Chaves, Julio ^a   Manuel, Collares Pereira ^a  

^a INETI   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIRRORS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 0036507808     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001267     Document Type: Article

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