Nominally stationary high-concentration solar optics by gradient-index lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2325-2334

  Kotsidas, Panagiotis ^a   Modi, Vijay ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

FLUX CONCENTRATION; GRADIENT-INDEX LENS; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79851503748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002325     Document Type: Article

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