Highly Efficient Light Splitting Photovoltaic Receiver
Frank Dimroth,B. George,V. Klinger,W. Guter,Myles A. Steiner,Jan Christoph Goldschmidt,Marius Peters,Gerald Siefer,G. Peharz,B. Groß +9 more
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This article is published in World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion.The article was published on 2009-11-18 and is currently open access. It has received 19 citations till now.read more
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Four-junction spectral beam-splitting photovoltaic receiver with high optical efficiency
Bernhard Mitchell,Gerhard Peharz,Gerald Siefer,Marius Peters,Tobias Gandy,Jan Christoph Goldschmidt,Jan Benick,Stefan W. Glunz,Andreas W. Bett,Frank Dimroth +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a spectral beam-splitting architecture is shown to provide an excellent basis for a four junction photovoltaic receiver with a virtually ideal band gap combination, which is used to create a very efficient light trap in form of a 45° parallelepiped.
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Compact spectrum splitting photovoltaic module with high efficiency
James D. McCambridge,Myles A. Steiner,Blair L. Unger,Keith Emery,Eric L. Christensen,Mark Wanlass,Allen L. Gray,Laszlo A. Takacs,Roger F. Buelow,Timothy A. McCollum,James W. Ashmead,Greg Schmidt,Alex W. Haas,J. R. Wilcox,James Van Meter,J.L. Gray,Duncan T. Moore,Allen Barnett,Richard J. Schwartz +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, a small, integrated photovoltaic module was designed, fabricated, and tested, consisting of two separately-contacted, high efficiency, multijunction solar cells and non-imaging optics that both concentrate and spectrally split the incoming light.
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Single element spectral splitting solar concentrator for multiple cells CPV system.
Marco Stefancich,Ahmed Zayan,Matteo Chiesa,S. Rampino,Dario Roncati,Lionel C. Kimerling,Jurgen Michel +6 more
TL;DR: A different modus operandi where a single low-cost optimized plastic prismatic structure performs simultaneously the tasks of concentrating the solar light and, based on the dispersive behavior of the employed material, spatially splitting it into its spectral component is considered.
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Lateral Spectrum Splitting Concentrator Photovoltaics: Direct Measurement of Component and Submodule Efficiency
Xiaoting Wang,Nick Waite,Paola Murcia,Keith Emery,Myles A. Steiner,Fouad Kiamilev,Keith W. Goossen,Christiana B. Honsberg,Allen Barnett +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a solar module architecture called lateral spectrum splitting concentrator photovoltaics (LSSCPV) is developed, which can concentrate available sunlight and laterally split a single beam into bands with different spectra for absorption by different solar cells with band gaps matched to the split spectrum.
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Design and fabrication of a diffractive optical element as a spectrum-splitting solar concentrator for lateral multijunction solar cells
Qingli Huang,Jinze Wang,Baogang Quan,Qiulin Zhang,Dongxiang Zhang,Dongmei Li,Qingbo Meng,Li Pan,Yanqin Wang,Guozhen Yang +9 more
TL;DR: The design of a single thin planar diffractive optical element based on the principle of diffractive optics to simultaneously split and concentrate the incident light into several energy ranges for lateral multijunction solar cells provides a feasible means for low-cost, large-scale, and high-efficiency photovoltaic applications.
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