Design of a lens-to-channel waveguide system as a solar concentrator structure

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Yuxiao ^a   Huang, Ran ^a   Madsen, Christi K ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; FOCAL POINTS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MATH MODEL; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; SECONDARY CONCENTRATORS; TAPERED WAVEGUIDE; WAVEGUIDE SYSTEMS;

PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84896376577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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