Photovoltaic system including a lens structure
US4042417A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 26, 1976 |
| Grant date | Aug 16, 1977 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 26, 1996 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02E10/544
Abstract
A photovoltaic or solar cell generator includes a plurality of unit solar cells each having one or more p-n junctions. An optical light-focusing system, which includes an array of lens elements, focuses the incoming radiation into a series of preferably narrow beams that are incident on the surfaces of the unit solar cells at locations lying immediately adjacent but spaced from the p-n junctions.
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