Monitoring of concentrated radiation beam for photovoltaic and thermal solar energy conversion applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 7885-7897

  Parretta, Antonio ^a,b   Privato, Carlo ^c   Nenna, Giuseppe ^c   Antonini, Andrea ^b   Stefancich, Marco ^b  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c ENEA CR Portici   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY;

LAMBERTIAN DIFFUSERS; LIGHT INTENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL SOLAR ENERGY;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 33751354296     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007885     Document Type: Article

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