Wide-angle planar microtracking for quasi-static microcell concentrating photovoltaics

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Price, Jared S ^a   Sheng, Xing ^b   Meulblok, Bram M ^c   Rogers, John A ^b   Giebink, Noel C ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c LUXeXcel Group BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; CELL ORGANELLE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATING PHOTOVOLTAIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FRESNEL LENS; ILLUMINATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RELATED PHENOMENA; REFRACTION INDEX; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84923165723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7223     Document Type: Article

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