Very high fluxes for concentrating photovoltaics: Considerations from simple experiments and modeling

Renewable Energy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-39

  Vossier, Alexis ^a,c   Chemisana, Daniel ^b   Flamant, Gilles ^a   Dollet, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cell characterization; Concentrating photovoltaics; Cost analysis; Multi junction solar cell; Very high concentration

Indexed keywords

CELL CHARACTERIZATION; COST ANALYSIS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAICS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; ELECTRICITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

CONTROL SYSTEM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOLAR POWER; VOLUME;

EID: 80052532574     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.06.036     Document Type: Article

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