Shortening the Design and Certification Cycle for Additively Manufactured Materials by Improved Mesoscale Simulations and Validation Experiments.
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Specht, Paul Elliott↗
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Saavedra, Michael P.
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Shortening the Design and Certification Cycle for Additively Manufactured Materials by Improved Mesoscale Simulations and Validation Experiments.
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Specht, Paul Elliott↗
Additive Manufacturing of Reflective Optical Components.
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Jared, Bradley Howell↗
Wafer-level Integrated Micro-scale Concentrating Photovoltaics.
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Tauke-Pedretti, Anna↗
Next Generation Photovoltaic Technologies For High-Performance Remote Power Generation (Final Report)
A unique, micro-scale architecture is proposed to create a novel hybrid concentrated photovoltaic system. Micro-scale (sub-millimeter wide), multi-junction cells are attached to a large-area silicon cell backplane (several inches wide) that can optimally collect both direct and diffuse light. By using multi- junction III-V cells, we can get the highest possible efficiency of the direct light input. In addition, by collecting the diffuse light in the large-area silicon cell, we can produce power on cloudy days when the concentrating cells would have minimal output. Through the use of micro-scale cells and lenses, the overall assembly will provide higher efficiency than conventional concentrators and flat plates, while keeping the form factor of a flat plate module. This report describes the hybrid concept, the design of a prototype, including the PV cells and optics, and the experimental results.
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