Faceted concentrators optimized for homogeneous radiation

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1152-1158

  Timinger, Andreas ^a   Kribus, Abraham ^b   Doron, Pinchas ^c   Ries, Harald ^a  

^a Optics & Energy Consulting   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATORS (CPC);

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 0038443468     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001152     Document Type: Article

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