Design and testing of 3D printed cross compound parabolic concentrators for LCPV system

Al-Shidhani, Mazin; Alnajideen, Mohammad; Rocha, Victoria García; Min, Gao

doi:10.1063/1.5053489

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“…The use of the CPV system for BIPV application and power generation remains a trending topic for researchers. The compound parabolic concept has been utilized in a handful of studies for solar energy applications [22][23][24][25]. In this study, the concentrator system was fabricated by utilizing a concentrated optic on the top of PSC and assembling it using ultra-violet (UV) curable adhesive.…”

Section: Device Fabrication and Cpv Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Concentrated Optics for Ambient Perovskite Solar Cells

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Metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are considered an effectual way to enhance photovoltaic (PV) properties, leading to low-cost and high efficiency. PSCs have experienced rapid improvement in the last ten years. The device’s energy production increases extensively in the presence of concentrated light. The use of concentrated optics in solar cells has spurred the PV industry towards tremendous research. Incorporating the concentrated optic into the PV system as a concentrated PV (CPV) means it can capture light effectively and operate at increased efficiencies under concentrated irradiance. This work addresses an initial assessment of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) enhancement of the ambient PSCs by externally integrating concentrated optics. Significantly, the concentrated optics exhibit ~90% of the PCE enhancement under the solar irradiance of 400 W/m2, whereas 16% of the PCE increase was observed when the solar irradiance changed to 1000 W/m2. During optics integration, a considerable elevation of short-circuit current predominately facilitated the overall efficiency enhancement of the PSC. A systematic PV parameters effect on the optic integration on PSCs was further scrutinized. Therefore, this work signifies a possible way to alleviate the PCE of carbon-based PSC using concentrated optics. This work focuses on integrating CPVs into PSCs, preventing PSC stability and scalability issues, with light conditioning techniques.

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confidence: 99%

Integrating Concentrated Optics for Ambient Perovskite Solar Cells

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“…In recent years, efforts have been reported to investigate CPV systems for building-integrated applications [18][19][20]. One of the research focuses is to improve the performance of the CPC [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], including a focus on the optical efficiency, acceptance angle and light uniformity across the PV cell [21][22][23][24]28]. The CPC appears to be a preferred choice over VSC because its compactness and higher concentration ratio [29,30].…”

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A new configuration of V-trough concentrator for achieving improved concentration ratio of >3.0x

Alnajideen

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2022

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

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“…They found that the half acceptance angle of this concentrator increased to about 40 • due to the light is firstly refracted at entry aperture surface before it is reflected by the parabolic mirrors. The angular response of other types of CPCs have also been investigated [21][22][23][24]. Saitoh et al reported a 3.2x hexagonal CPC that has a half acceptance angle of 32 • [13].…”

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confidence: 99%