Viability study of porous silicon photonic mirrors as secondary reflectors for solar concentration systems

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1218-1224

  de la Mora, M B ^a   Jaramillo, O A ^a   Nava, R ^a   Taguena Martinez J ^a   del Rio J A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

^b Centro Morelense de Innovación y Transferencia Tecnológica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Photonic mirrors; Porous silicon; Secondary reflector; Solar concentrator

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INFRARED DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON PHOTONICS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

NANO-STRUCTURED; NEAR INFRARED REGION; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH; SECONDARY MIRROR; SECONDARY REFLECTOR; SOLAR CONCENTRATION; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 67349208455     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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