Free form Optics Applications in Photovoltaic Concentration

J. C. Minano

doi:10.1364/OSE.2012.SM2A.3

Renewable Energy and the Environment Optics and Photonics Congress
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2012),
paper SM2A.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2012.SM2A.3

Free form Optics Applications in Photovoltaic Concentration

J. C. Minano

Optics for Solar Energy 2012

Eindhoven Netherlands
11–14 November 2012
ISBN: 978-1-55752-952-7

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Concentrator Optics and Spectrum Splitting (SM2A)

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Abstract

Freeform surfaces are the key of the state-of-the-art nonimaging optics to solve the challenges in concentration photovoltaics. Different families (FK, XR, FRXI) will be presented, based on the SMS 3D design method and Köhler homogenization.

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