A study of thin profile solar concentrators using wedge prism with diffractive grating

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7652, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Waritanant, T ^a   Boonruang, S ^b   Chung, T Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION RATIO; DIFFRACTIVE GRATING; LENGTH-TO-THICKNESS RATIO; SAWTOOTH PROFILE; WEDGE PRISMS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PRISMS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 78049387169     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.868921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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