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Mechanical tolerances study through simulations and experimental characterization for a 1000X micro-concentrator CPV module

Publié le 29 mars 2018
Mechanical tolerances study through simulations and experimental characterization for a 1000X micro-concentrator CPV module
Auteurs
Ritou A., Voarino P., Goubault B., David N., Bernardis S., Raccurt O., Baudrit M.
Year2017-0440
Source-TitleAIP Conference Proceedings
Affiliations
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LITEN, INES, Laboratory for Concentrated PhotoVoltaics, Grenoble, France, CEA-LETI, LPI, MINATEC Campus, 17 rue des Martyrs, Grenoble, France
Abstract
Existing CPV technology markets are not compliant with a standard configuration. Concentrations vary from several suns to more than 1000 suns and the optical technology used could be very different. Nowadays, the market trends are moving toward more and more compact optical systems in order to exploit the Light Emitting Diode (LED) like approach. The aim is to increase the optical efficiency by using an ultra-short focal distance and to improve thermal management. Moreover the efficiency to weight ratio is increasing and the solar cell size becomes sub-millimetric. With these conditions, more stringent mechanical tolerances are essential to ensure an optimum optical alignment between cells and optics. A new process of micro-concentrator manufacturing is developed in this work. This process enables manufacturing and auto-alignment of Primary Optical Elements (POE) with Secondary Optical Elements (SOE) and solar cells with respect to certain mechanical tolerances. A 1000X micro-concentrator is manufactured with 0.6 x 0.6 mm2 triple-junction cells and molded silicone optics. Mechanical alignment defects are studied by ray-tracing simulations and a prototype is characterized with respect to its mechanical behavior. An efficiency of 33.4% is measured with a Cell-to-Module ratio of 77.8%. © 2017 Author(s).
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