Determination of the cooling requirements for single cell photovoltaic receivers under variable atmospheric parameters

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Theristis, Marios ^a,b   Stark, Cameron ^b   O'Donovan, Tadhg S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fraunhofer USA   (United States)

Author keywords

cell temperature; concentrating photovoltaics; cooling requirements; spectral effects; triple junction solar cells

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

CELL TEMPERATURE; COOLING REQUIREMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SPECTRAL EFFECTS; TRIPLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84961637927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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