Wafer integrated micro-scale concentrating photovoltaics
Recent development of a novel micro-scale PV/CPV technology is presented. The Wafer Integrated Micro-scale PV approach (WPV) seamlessly integrates multijunction micro-cells with a multi-functional silicon platform that provides optical micro-concentration, hybrid photovoltaic, and mechanical micro-a...
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| author | Jared, Bradley Keeler, Gordon Miller, Bill Sweatt, William Paap, Scott Saavedra, Michael Das, Ujjwal Hegedus, Steve Tauke-Pedretti, Anna Gu, Tian Li, Duanhui Li, Lan Hu, Juejun |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Jared, Bradley Keeler, Gordon Miller, Bill Sweatt, William Paap, Scott Saavedra, Michael Das, Ujjwal Hegedus, Steve Tauke-Pedretti, Anna Gu, Tian Li, Duanhui Li, Lan Hu, Juejun |
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| description | Recent development of a novel micro-scale PV/CPV technology is presented. The Wafer Integrated Micro-scale PV approach (WPV) seamlessly integrates multijunction micro-cells with a multi-functional silicon platform that provides optical micro-concentration, hybrid photovoltaic, and mechanical micro-assembly. The wafer-embedded micro-concentrating elements is shown to considerably improve the concentration-acceptance-angle product, potentially leading to dramatically reduced module materials and fabrication costs, sufficient angular tolerance for low-cost trackers, and an ultra-compact optical architecture, which makes the WPV module compatible with commercial flat panel infrastructures. The PV/CPV hybrid architecture further allows the collection of both direct and diffuse sunlight, thus extending the geographic and market domains for cost-effective PV system deployment. The WPV approach can potentially benefits from both the high performance of multijunction cells and the low cost of flat plate Si PV systems. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1174862022-09-27T18:47:32Z Wafer integrated micro-scale concentrating photovoltaics Jared, Bradley Keeler, Gordon Miller, Bill Sweatt, William Paap, Scott Saavedra, Michael Das, Ujjwal Hegedus, Steve Tauke-Pedretti, Anna Gu, Tian Li, Duanhui Li, Lan Hu, Juejun Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering MIT Materials Research Laboratory Hu, Juejun Gu, Tian Li, Duanhui Li, Lan Hu, Juejun Recent development of a novel micro-scale PV/CPV technology is presented. The Wafer Integrated Micro-scale PV approach (WPV) seamlessly integrates multijunction micro-cells with a multi-functional silicon platform that provides optical micro-concentration, hybrid photovoltaic, and mechanical micro-assembly. The wafer-embedded micro-concentrating elements is shown to considerably improve the concentration-acceptance-angle product, potentially leading to dramatically reduced module materials and fabrication costs, sufficient angular tolerance for low-cost trackers, and an ultra-compact optical architecture, which makes the WPV module compatible with commercial flat panel infrastructures. The PV/CPV hybrid architecture further allows the collection of both direct and diffuse sunlight, thus extending the geographic and market domains for cost-effective PV system deployment. The WPV approach can potentially benefits from both the high performance of multijunction cells and the low cost of flat plate Si PV systems. 2018-08-22T18:50:49Z 2018-08-22T18:50:49Z 2017-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0094-243X 1551-7616 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117486 Gu, Tian et al. “Wafer Integrated Micro-Scale Concentrating Photovoltaics” AIP Conference Proceedings 1881, 1 (September 2017): 80004 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5476-6368 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7233-3918 en_US https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001442 AIP Conference Proceedings Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Institute of Physics (AIP) Prof. Hu via Erja Kajosalo |
| spellingShingle | Jared, Bradley Keeler, Gordon Miller, Bill Sweatt, William Paap, Scott Saavedra, Michael Das, Ujjwal Hegedus, Steve Tauke-Pedretti, Anna Gu, Tian Li, Duanhui Li, Lan Hu, Juejun Wafer integrated micro-scale concentrating photovoltaics |
| title | Wafer integrated micro-scale concentrating photovoltaics |
| title_full | Wafer integrated micro-scale concentrating photovoltaics |
| title_fullStr | Wafer integrated micro-scale concentrating photovoltaics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wafer integrated micro-scale concentrating photovoltaics |
| title_short | Wafer integrated micro-scale concentrating photovoltaics |
| title_sort | wafer integrated micro scale concentrating photovoltaics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117486 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5476-6368 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7233-3918 |
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