Nonparabolic solar concentrators matching the parabola

Optics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4301-4304

  Cooper, Thomas ^a   Schmitz, Max ^a   Good, Philipp ^a   Ambrosetti, Gianluca ^b   Pedretti, Andrea ^b   Steinfeld, Aldo ^a,c  

^a Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering ^*  (Switzerland)

^b Airlight Energy Holding SA   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS;

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; CONCAVE MIRROR; LOW COSTS; PARABOLIC TROUGH; THIN POLYMER MEMBRANE;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84905009955     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.004301     Document Type: Article

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