Advanced PV concentrators

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 000929-000932

  Zamora, P ^a   Cvetkovic, A ^b   Buljan, M ^a   Hernandez M ^b   Benitez, P ^a   Minano J C ^a   Dross, O ^b   Alvarez, R ^b   Santamaria, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Centro de Domótica Integral CeDInt   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; ACCURACY ERRORS; DESIGN METHOD; FREE-FORM SURFACE; HOMOGENIZERS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; NON-IMAGING;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

DESIGN;

EID: 77951542787     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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