학술논문

Uniform Illumination of Concentrated Sunlight in Photovoltaic Solar Modules With Plane-Focusing Fresnel Lenses
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Photonics Journal IEEE Photonics J. Photonics Journal, IEEE. 15(4):1-10 Aug, 2023
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Lenses
Manufacturing
Focusing
Diamonds
Photovoltaic systems
Fresnel reflection
Radiation effects
Microprismatic structure
modeling of plane-focusing optics
sunlight-to-electricity conversion
Language
ISSN
1943-0655
1943-0647
Abstract
An algorithm has been developed for modeling the parameters of microprismatic specialized plane-focusing Fresnel lenses. Such lenses are more effective for application in photovoltaic modules compare to the traditional point-focusing Fresnel lenses for concentrating the sunlight. The method for manufacturing above lenses by diamond cutting technique and subsequent thermal pressing of silicone blanks is proposed. The optical characteristics of new plane-focusing lenses for photovoltaic solar modules, which are made using our simulation results, have been experimentally investigated with collimated laser beam.