Phase-change actuator for self-tracking planar solar concentrator

Eric Tremblay; Damien Loterie; Christophe Moser

doi:10.1364/OSE.2012.SM2A.4

Renewable Energy and the Environment Optics and Photonics Congress
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2012),
paper SM2A.4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2012.SM2A.4

Phase-change actuator for self-tracking planar solar concentrator

Eric Tremblay, Damien Loterie, and Christophe Moser

Optics for Solar Energy 2012

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

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E. Tremblay, D. Loterie, and C. Moser, "Phase-change actuator for self-tracking planar solar concentrator," in Renewable Energy and the Environment Optics and Photonics Congress, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2012), paper SM2A.4.

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Abstract

We present a concept and show preliminary experimental results for a reversible in-plane actuator for solar focus activated lightguide coupling. By actuating at the location of focused sunlight and splitting the solar spectrum for actuation energy, this device aims to adaptively self-track and efficiently concentrate solar light into a planar waveguide.

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