Editorial: Toward 100 gigawatts of concentrator photovoltaics by 2030

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1460-1463

  Friedman, Daniel J ^a   King, Richard R ^b   Swanson, Richard M ^c   McJannet, Jennifer ^d   Gwinner, Don ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Spectrolab Inc   (United States)

^c SunPower Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercialization; concentrator photovoltaics (CPV); cost modeling; multijunction cells; optics; reliability; tracking

Indexed keywords

CELL LEVELS; COMMERCIALIZATION; CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS; COST MODELING; INDUSTRY GROUPS; MULTI-JUNCTION CELLS; TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENT;

OPTICS; RELIABILITY; SURFACE DISCHARGES;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 84884587804     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2270341     Document Type: Review

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