Experimental investigation of heat transfer performance of a manifold microchannel heat sink for cooling of concentrated solar cells

Proceedings - Electronic Components and Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 453-459

  Kermani, Elnaz ^a   Dessiatoun, Serguei ^a   Shooshtari, Amir ^a   Ohadi, Michael M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATED SOLAR CELLS; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; CONCENTRATION OF; COOLING METHODS; ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY; ENTRY REGION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; HEATED AREA; HIGH CONCENTRATION; MANIFOLD MICROCHANNEL; MICROFABRICATED; MODERATE PRESSURES; POWER TECHNOLOGIES; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SMALL AREA; SOLAR FLUX; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; THERMAL INTERFACES; WORKING FLUID;

CELL MEMBRANES; COOLING; HEAT FLUX; HEAT SINKS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MICROCHANNELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SUBSTRATES;

HEAT RESISTANCE;

EID: 70349666740     PISSN: 05695503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECTC.2009.5074053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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