Solar cell arrangement

US4367366A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Werner H. Bloss · DE

Inventors

• Werner Bloss · Bad Sobernheim, DE
• Gert Hewig · Steinenbronn, DE
• Gerhard Laub · Burlingame, US
• Erich Reinhardt · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 17, 1981
• Grant date: Jan 4, 1983
• Expiry date: Feb 17, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/52
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A solar cell arrangement with an associated optical collecting lens system. The lens system focuses a light impingement area onto the solar cell to intensify incident radiation. The collecting lens system includes an optically active layer provided between the light impingement area and the solar cells. The optically active layer images and disperses the incident light in a manner adapted to the surface and light absorption characteristics of the solar cells.