Design considerations for a concentrator photovoltaic system based on a branched planar waveguide

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fujieda, Ichiro ^a   Arizono, Kazuma ^a   Okuda, Yuuto ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Concentrator photovoltaic; Ray tracing; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION FACTORS; CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; FRESNEL REFLECTIONS; RAY TRACING SIMULATION; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; WAVEGUIDE MATERIALS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PRISMS; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

LENSES;

EID: 84896693088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.2.021807     Document Type: Article

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