Aplanatic optics for solar concentration

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 101, 2010, Pages A41-A52

  Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS; FLUX CONCENTRATION; IMAGING OPTICS; OPTICAL TOLERANCES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONCENTRATORS; PRAGMATIC CONSTRAINTS; SOLAR CONCENTRATION; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 77952081416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000A41     Document Type: Article

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