High-efficiency Thin and Compact Concentrator Photovoltaics with Micro-solar Cells Directly Attached to Lens Array

Tohru Nakagawa; Nobuhiko Hayashi; Daijiro Inoue; Mitsuhiro Matsumoto; Akio Matsushita; Hiroshi Higuchi; Takayuki Nagata; Masato Ishino; Kazuo Inoue; Ryutaro Futakuchi; Masaki Yamamoto; Youichirou Aya; Onur Fidaner; Ferran Suarez; Michael Wiemer

doi:10.1364/OSE.2014.RF4B.5

Light, Energy and the Environment
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014),
paper RF4B.5
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2014.RF4B.5

High-efficiency Thin and Compact Concentrator Photovoltaics with Micro-solar Cells Directly Attached to Lens Array

Tohru Nakagawa, Nobuhiko Hayashi, Daijiro Inoue, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Akio Matsushita, Hiroshi Higuchi, Takayuki Nagata, Masato Ishino, Kazuo Inoue, Ryutaro Futakuchi, Masaki Yamamoto, Youichirou Aya, Onur Fidaner, Ferran Suarez, and Michael Wiemer

Optics for Solar Energy 2014

Canberra Australia
2–5 December 2014
ISBN: 978-1-55752-756-1

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T. Nakagawa, N. Hayashi, D. Inoue, M. Matsumoto, A. Matsushita, H. Higuchi, T. Nagata, M. Ishino, K. Inoue, R. Futakuchi, M. Yamamoto, Y. Aya, O. Fidaner, F. Suarez, and M. Wiemer, "High-efficiency Thin and Compact Concentrator Photovoltaics with Micro-solar Cells Directly Attached to Lens Array," in Light, Energy and the Environment, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014), paper RF4B.5.

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Abstract

We propose a thin and compact concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) module, about 20mm in thickness, one tenth thinner than those of conventional CPVs, to enlarge CPV application scenarios, and achieved an energy conversion efficiency of 34.7%.

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