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High-efficiency Thin and Compact Concentrator Photovoltaics with Micro-solar Cells Directly Attached to Lens Array

Authors :
Hiroshi Higuchi
Onur Fidaner
Inoue Kazuo
Akio Matsushita
Nobuhiko Hayashi
Tohru Nakagawa
Ferran Suarez
Michael W. Wiemer
Daijiro Inoue
Takayuki Nagata
Ryutaro Futakuchi
Masaki Yamamoto
Youichirou Aya
Masato Ishino
Mitsuhiro Matsumoto
Source :
Light, Energy and the Environment.
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
OSA, 2014.

Abstract

We propose a thin and compact concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) module, about 20mm in thickness, one tenth thinner than those of conventional CPVs, to enlarge CPV application scenarios, and achieved an energy conversion efficiency of 34.7%.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Light, Energy and the Environment
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........1631585cc70d53dfdcc85a3ff67614cf