Uniform Illumination of Concentrated Sunlight in Photovoltaic Solar Modules With Plane-Focusing Fresnel Lenses

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 manu...

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Published inIEEE photonics journal Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 1 - 11
Main Authors Fu, Minglei, Antonov, Eugene, Lysenko, Volodumyr, Petrov, Viacheslav, Zenin, Vladimir
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 01.08.2023
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Algorithms
Diamond machining
Diamonds
Focusing
Fresnel lenses
Fresnel reflection
Laser beams
Lenses
Manufacturing
Microprismatic structure
modeling of plane-focusing optics
Optical properties
Photovoltaic cells
Photovoltaic systems
Radiation effects
Sunlight
sunlight-to-electricity conversion
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1943-0655
1943-0647
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2023.3288155