Planar photonic solar concentrators for building-integrated photovoltaics

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-57

  Kocher Oberlehner, Gudrun ^a   Bardosova, Maria ^b   Pemble, Martyn ^b   Richards, Bryce S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Photonic crystals; Photovoltaic devices; Self assembly; Solar concentrators

Indexed keywords

BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC; BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; COLLOIDAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; I-V MEASUREMENTS; INCIDENT LIGHT; LANGMUIR BLODGETT TECHNIQUES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FILMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PLANAR PHOTONICS; POWER OUT PUT; REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS; SOLAR TRACKING; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84861337774     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.04.018     Document Type: Article

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