Design and fabrication of a diffractive optical element as a spectrum-splitting solar concentrator for lateral multijunction solar cells

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2312-2319

  Huang, Qingli ^a   Wang, Jinze ^a   Quan, Baogang ^a   Zhang, Qiulin ^a,b   Zhang, Dongxiang ^a,b   Li, Dongmei ^a,b   Meng, Qingbo ^a,b   Pan, Li ^c   Wang, Yanqin ^c   Yang, Guozhen ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

HIGH-EFFICIENCY; IMPRINT TECHNOLOGY; INCIDENT LIGHT; MASS PRODUCTION; MAXIMUM THICKNESS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PLANAR DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; SPECTRUM SPLITTING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84876754282     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.002312     Document Type: Article

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