Spectral splitting planar solar concentrator: experimental testing of a design aiming at dye sensitized solar cells

P. Blain; C. Michel; L. Clermont; F. Languy; M. Décultot; Serge Habraken; C. Lenaerts; K. Fleury-Frenette; D. Vandormael; Jérôme J. D. Loicq

doi:10.1117/12.2051505

15 May 2014 Spectral splitting planar solar concentrator: experimental testing of a design aiming at dye sensitized solar cells

P. Blain, C. Michel, L. Clermont, F. Languy, M. Décultot, Serge Habraken, C. Lenaerts, K. Fleury-Frenette, D. Vandormael, Jérôme J. D. Loicq

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Proceedings Volume 9140, Photonics for Solar Energy Systems V; 91400S (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051505
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

We present a new solar concentrator concept. This concept is based on spectral splitting. It implies reflective, refractive and diffractive elements that allow two spectrally differentiated beams to reach different and/or unmatched lattice solar cells. The aimed geometrical concentration factor is 5× and the theoretical optical efficiency of that concentrator concept reaches theoretically 82%. The following study will discuss the concept of such a solar concentrator. A practical application to dye sensitized solar cells is given. The manufacturing and design of the element is then exposed. Those elements have been tested in the laboratory. Good agreements with theoretical simulations are demonstrated.

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P. Blain, C. Michel, L. Clermont, F. Languy, M. Décultot, Serge Habraken, C. Lenaerts, K. Fleury-Frenette, D. Vandormael, and Jérôme J. D. Loicq "Spectral splitting planar solar concentrator: experimental testing of a design aiming at dye sensitized solar cells", Proc. SPIE 9140, Photonics for Solar Energy Systems V, 91400S (15 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051505

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