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Microsystem enabled photovoltaic modules and systems

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1389789
A photovoltaic (PV) module includes an absorber layer coupled to an optic layer. The absorber layer includes an array of PV elements. The optic layer includes a close-packed array of Keplerian telescope elements, each corresponding to one of an array of pupil elements. The Keplerian telescope substantially couple radiation that is incident on their objective surfaces into the corresponding pupil elements. Each pupil element relays radiation that is coupled into it from the corresponding Keplerian telescope element into the corresponding PV element.
Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
Patent Number(s):
9,761,748
Application Number:
14/686,139
OSTI ID:
1389789
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Design criteria for Si point-contact concentrator solar cells journal October 1987
Microstructure to substrate self-assembly using capillary forces journal March 2001
Micro-Optics for High-Efficiency Optical Performance and Simplified Tracking for Concentrated Photovoltaics (CPV) conference January 2010
Silicon point contact concentrator solar cells journal August 1985

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