Optofluidic approaches to stationary tracking optical concentrator systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8834, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Stefancich, Marco ^a   Maragliano, Carlo ^a   Chiesa, Matteo ^a   Lilliu, Samuele ^a   Dahlem, Marcus ^a   Silvernail, Adam ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

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Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION PHOTOVOLTAICS; INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS; MECHANICAL TRACKING; MULTI PHASE SYSTEMS; MULTI-PHYSICS MODELING; OPTICAL CONCENTRATORS; RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

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OPTICS;

EID: 84888155383     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2024331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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