A flat-plate concentrator: micro-concentrator design overview

Mulligan, William P.; Terao, A.; Daroczi, S.G.; Pujol, Olivier; Cudzinovic, M.; Verlinden, Pierre J.; Swanson, R.M.; Benı́tez, Pablo; Miñano, Juan C.

doi:10.1109/pvsc.2000.916177

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“…This is the lowest cost of energy projection reported for a PV system, and would be very remarkable if it holds up in practice. SunPower is also working on a similar concept in partnership with the Polytechnical University of Madrid, except that they are using silicon cells [76].…”

Section: Polytechnical University Of Madridmentioning

confidence: 99%

Photovoltaic Concentrators

Swanson¹

2003

Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering

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Section: Polytechnical University Of Madridmentioning

confidence: 99%

Photovoltaic Concentrators

Swanson¹

2003

Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering

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“…It should be noted that it is assumed here that the efficiency of the solar cell can be maintained, even when cut into a 0.3 cm-wide strip. In reality, this would require an edge passivation strategy to be implemented in the device design – as developed by SunPower for 2.3 mm × 2.3 mm micro-concentrator solar cells 126 – to avoid excessive recombination of electrons or holes at the edges of the solar cell.…”

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Luminescent solar concentrators for building integrated photovoltaics: opportunities and challenges

Richards

Howard

2023

Energy Environ. Sci.

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“…Passivation of the lateral surfaces has been implemented for silicon micro solar cells. This passivation is referred to as edge surface field (ESF), [ 65 ] yet for multijunction solar cells this approach is complicated given different semiconductor materials are used in the stack. Still, a successful approach has been shown using the antireflection coating as lateral passivation and insulation for tandem solar cells.…”

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Integrated Micro‐Scale Concentrating Photovoltaics: A Scalable Path Toward High‐Efficiency, Low‐Cost Solar Power

Jost

Juejun

et al. 2023

Solar RRL

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The global energy market is seeing increases in the electricity demand of a couple of percentage points annually. The photovoltaic (PV) industry is also growing rapidly every year. One of the PV technologies is concentrator photovoltaics (CPV). CPV uses high‐efficiency multijunction solar cells and optics to concentrate sunlight, thereby significantly reducing the amount of semiconductor material needed. Yet, due to the high upfont manufacturing cost of CPV, it currently does not offer a competitive price against silicon PV. With this a new branch is introduced to the industry, micro‐CPV, which can be broadly explained as the miniaturization of the solar cells and optical components. The motivation for micro‐CPV is lowering the cost by decreasing the material volume and enabling new system architectures and high‐throughput manufacturing methods, while still maintaining high electrical efficiencies, taking advantage of a lower thermal load, shorter optical paths, lower resistive losses, and lower material volumes. Herein, a comprehensive review of the technological advances is presented, key synergies between micro‐CPV and other industries sharing similar challenges are identified, exemplified by micro‐light emitting diodes display manufacturing. New assembly process development in these industries will facilitate commercial adoption of micro‐CPV with continued miniaturization while driving down the cost.

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A flat-plate concentrator: micro-concentrator design overview

Cited by 11 publications

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Photovoltaic Concentrators

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Luminescent solar concentrators for building integrated photovoltaics: opportunities and challenges

Integrated Micro‐Scale Concentrating Photovoltaics: A Scalable Path Toward High‐Efficiency, Low‐Cost Solar Power

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