Efficiency of antenna solar collection

Proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion

Volumn C, Issue , 2003, Pages 2682-2685

  Corkish, Richard ^a   Green, Martin A ^a   Puzzer, Tom ^a   Humphrey, Tammy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY PROPAGATION; LIGHT ARRAYS; QUANTUM DEVICES;

ARRAYS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MICROWAVES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 6344222241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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