Improved irradiance distribution on high concentration solar cell using free-form concentrator

Solar Energy

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 694-707

  Tsai, Chung Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concentrator; Free form; Parabolic; Skew ray tracing; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); RAY TRACING; REFLECTION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

CONCENTRATOR; CONCENTRATOR SYSTEMS; FREEFORMS; IRRADIANCE DISTRIBUTION; PARABOLIC; PARABOLIC REFLECTOR; SKEW RAY TRACING; SURFACE CREATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

IRRADIANCE; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAY TRACING; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 84926486313     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2015.03.032     Document Type: Article

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