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Title: Roadmap on optical energy conversion

Journal Article · · Journal of Optics

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308; SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577; FG02-02ER45977; AC02-05CH11231; SC0001293
OSTI ID:
1387923
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5900-64521
Journal Information:
Journal of Optics, Vol. 18, Issue 7; Related Information: LMI partners with California Institute of Technology (lead); Harvard University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; ISSN 2040-8978
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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