Exploration of the horizontally staggered light guides for high concentration CPV applications

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 19137-19147

  Selimoglu, Ozgur ^a   Turan, Rasit ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; COSTS; LIGHT; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; ANTIREFLECTION; AR COATINGS; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INCOMING LIGHT; LENS ARRAY; LIGHT GUIDES; LINEAR CONCENTRATOR; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; PROCESSING COSTS; SINGLE LAYER; THERMAL BEHAVIORS;

LENSES;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84865580941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.019137     Document Type: Article

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