Visual Appearance of Effectively Transparent Contacts for Solar Windows

Lucas Myers; Pim Venderbosch; Chris van de Stadt; Chris van de Stadt; Harry Atwater; Rebecca Saive

doi:10.1364/OSE.2018.OM3D.2

Light, Energy and the Environment 2018 (E2, FTS, HISE, SOLAR, SSL)
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2018),
paper OM3D.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2018.OM3D.2

Visual Appearance of Effectively Transparent Contacts for Solar Windows

Lucas Myers, Pim Venderbosch, Chris van de Stadt, Harry Atwater, and Rebecca Saive

Optics for Solar Energy 2018

Singapore Singapore
5–8 November 2018
ISBN: 978-1-943580-47-7

From the session
PV Modules and Characterization (OM3D)

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Get PDF
Email
Share
Get Citation
Copy Citation Text
L. Myers, P. Venderbosch, C. van de Stadt, H. Atwater, and R. Saive, "Visual Appearance of Effectively Transparent Contacts for Solar Windows," in Light, Energy and the Environment 2018 (E2, FTS, HISE, SOLAR, SSL), OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2018), paper OM3D.2.

Export Citation
- BibTex
- Endnote (RIS)
- HTML
- Plain Text
Citation alert
Save article

Abstract

We explore the visual aspects of effectively transparent contacts – triangular microscale silver grids that mitigate shading losses – for use in solar windows. The distortion of view is investigated by ray optical computations and experiments.

PDF Article

More Like This

An optical study of back contacted CIGS solar cells

Nasim Rezaei, Olindo Isabella, Zeger Vroon, and Miro Zeman
OM2D.5 Optics for Solar Energy (SOLED) 2018

Fabricating High Aspect Ratio Front Contacts for Solar Cells by String-printing

Mathis Van de Voorde and Rebecca Saive
PvW2H.4 Optical Devices and Materials for Solar Energy and Solid-state Lighting (SOLED) 2022

Study of annealing effects of transparent contact for organic devices

Amitendra Nath Chaudhuri, M. A. Matin, and T. M. Stephen
WNN5 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2003

Previous Article Next Article