Planar waveguide concentrator used with a seasonal tracker

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 6848-6854

  Bouchard, Sébastien ^a   Thibault, Simon ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; WAVEGUIDES;

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; CYLINDRICAL MICROLENS; CYLINDRICAL MICROLENSE; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZED SYSTEM; TRACKING SYSTEM;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 84867025876     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.006848     Document Type: Article

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