Unfolded aplanats for high-concentration photovoltaics

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1114-1116

  Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a   Feuermann, Daniel ^a   Young, Pete ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b SolFocus Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR CELLS;

CONCENTRATION PHOTOVOLTAICS; LARGE VOLUMES; MILLIMETER-SCALE; OFF-AXIS; OPTICAL BONDS; OPTICAL TOLERANCES;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 44949197692     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.001114     Document Type: Article

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