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Abstract
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| The possibility of using thermoplastic such as solar encapsulants as an alternative to silicone is shown for encapsulant-on-glass (EOG) lenses. This is an alternative with a respectable potential due to lower material cost, lower coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), lower thermal coefficient of the refractive index (dn/dT) and a manufacturing process which shares many similarities to the silicone-on-glass (SOG) and flat-plane-PV fabrication. The cost of the optical component of a CPV module can be brought down with this new approach of fabricating Fresnel lenses. Measured efficiency results show optical efficiencies losses of 8% compared to state-of-the-art SOG lenses. This result is preliminary with improvements in lens design and manufacturing still pending. | |
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International
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Congress
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15th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems (CPV-15) |
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960 |
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Place
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Fez |
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Reviewers
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ISBN/ISSN
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978-0-7354-1894-3 |
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10.1063/1.5124205 |
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Start Date
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25/03/2019 |
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End Date
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27/03/2019 |
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From page
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700061 |
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To page
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700066 |
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AIP Conference Proceedings 2149, 070006 (2019) |