Pushing concentration of stationary solar concentrators to the limit

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 101, 2010, Pages A64-A72

  Winston, Roland ^a,b   Zhang, Weiya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Merced   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EARTH (PLANET);

CONCENTRATION OF; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DIRECTION COSINE; NONIMAGING OPTICS; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 77952025090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000A64     Document Type: Article

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