Photovoltaic-thermal solar energy collectors based on optical tubes

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 450-454

  Huang, Huihui ^a,b   Li, Yuan ^a   Wang, Mingjun ^a,b   Nie, Wanyi ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Peterson, Eric D ^a   Liu, Jiwen ^a   Fang, Guojia ^b   Carroll, David L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Photothermal; Photovoltaic; Solar energy collector; Tube cell

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; PHOTOTHERMAL; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SOLAR ENERGY COLLECTOR; TUBE CELL;

BUTYRIC ACID; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICONES; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ESTER; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

EID: 79951727541     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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