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Semi-Transparent Energy-Harvesting Solar Concentrator Windows Employing Infrared Transmission-Enhanced glass and Large-Area Microstructured Diffractive Elements

Version 1 : Received: 23 July 2018 / Approved: 23 July 2018 / Online: 23 July 2018 (10:18:54 CEST)

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Vasiliev, M.; Alameh, K.; Badshah, M.A.; Kim, S.-M.; Nur-E-Alam, M. Semi-Transparent Energy-Harvesting Solar Concentrator Windows Employing Infrared Transmission-Enhanced Glass and Large-Area Microstructured Diffractive Elements. Photonics 2018, 5, 25. Vasiliev, M.; Alameh, K.; Badshah, M.A.; Kim, S.-M.; Nur-E-Alam, M. Semi-Transparent Energy-Harvesting Solar Concentrator Windows Employing Infrared Transmission-Enhanced Glass and Large-Area Microstructured Diffractive Elements. Photonics 2018, 5, 25.

Abstract

We report on the study of energy-harvesting performance in medium-size (400 cm2) glass-based semitransparent solar concentrators employing edge-mounted photovoltaic modules. Systems using several different types of glazing system architecture and containing embedded diffractive structures are prepared and characterized. The technological approaches to the rapid manufacture of large-area diffractive elements suitable for use in solar window-type concentrators are described. These elements enable the internal deflection and partial trapping of light inside glass-based concentrator windows. We focus on uncovering the potential of pattern-transfer polymer-based soft lithography for enabling both the improved photon collection probability at solar cell surfaces, and the up-scaling of semitransparent solar window dimensions. Results of photovoltaic characterization of several solar concentrators employing different internal glazing-system structure and diffractive elements produced using different technologies are reported and discussed.

Keywords

solar windows; advanced glazings; diffractive elements; light trapping; photovoltaics

Subject

Physical Sciences, Applied Physics

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