Stationary nonimaging lenses for solar concentration

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 5183-5191

  Kotsidas, Panagiotis ^a   Chatzi, Eleni ^b   Modi, Vijay ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

ACCEPTANCE HALF ANGLE; GEOMETRIC VARIABLES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTERNAL MOTION; MULTIPLE SURFACES; QUASI-STATIONARY; REFRACTIVE LENS; SOLAR CONCENTRATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77957561580     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.005183     Document Type: Article

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