Micro-concentrators for a microsystems-enabled photovoltaic system

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Jared, Bradley H ^a   Saavedra, Michael P ^a   Anderson, Ben J ^a   Goeke, Ron S ^a   Sweatt, William C ^a   Nielson, Gregory N ^a   Okandan, Murat ^a   Elisberg, Brenton ^a   Snively, Dave ^b   Duncan, John ^b   Gu, Tian ^c   Agrawal, Gautam ^c   Haney, Michael W ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Greeenlight Optics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

FIELD OF VIEWS; MICROCONCENTRATORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PV CELLS;

MICROSYSTEMS;

EID: 84896377047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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