Tailored free-form optics with movement to integrate tracking in concentrating photovoltaics

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 103, 2013, Pages A401-A411

  Duerr, Fabian ^a   Meuret, Youri ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DIRECT CALCULATION; FREEFORM LENS; FREEFORM OPTICS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; LATERAL MOVEMENT; OPTICS DESIGN; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SINGLE-AXIS TRACKERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84878525730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.00A401     Document Type: Article

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