Concentrating Optics with Big Glass Mirrors for Inexpensive CPV Generation

Roger Angel; Roger Angel; Blake Coughenour; Tom Stalcup; Tom Stalcup; Brian Wheelwright

doi:10.1364/OSE.2013.RT2D.2

Renewable Energy and the Environment
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013),
paper RT2D.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2013.RT2D.2

Concentrating Optics with Big Glass Mirrors for Inexpensive CPV Generation

Roger Angel, Blake Coughenour, Tom Stalcup, and Brian Wheelwright

Optics for Solar Energy 2013

Tucson, Arizona United States
3–7 November 2013
ISBN: 978-1-55752-986-2

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Concentrators - Design and Manufacturing (RT2D)

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R. Angel, B. Coughenour, T. Stalcup, and B. Wheelwright, "Concentrating Optics with Big Glass Mirrors for Inexpensive CPV Generation," in Renewable Energy and the Environment, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013), paper RT2D.2.

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Abstract

Large, inexpensive, back-silvered glass mirrors are widely used at solar thermal generation plants. The electrical output per mirror may be doubled by optical coupling to highly efficient, triple junction photovoltaic cells.

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