Tracking integration in concentrating photovoltaics using laterally moving optics

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 103, 2011, Pages A207-A218

  Duerr, Fabian ^a   Meuret, Youri ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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EID: 85010088413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00A207     Document Type: Article

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