Concentrator photovoltaic module architectures with capabilities for capture and conversion of full global solar radiation

Kyu Tae Lee; Yuan Yao; Junwen He; Brent Fisher; Xing Sheng; Matthew Lumb; Lu Xu; Mikayla A. Anderson; David Scheiman; Seungyong Han; Yongseon Kang; Abdurrahman Gumus; Rabab R. Bahabry; Jung Woo Lee; Ungyu Paik; Noah D. Bronstein; A. Paul Alivisatos; Matthew Meitl; Scott Burroughs; Muhammad Mustafa Hussain; Jeong Chul Lee; Ralph G. Nuzzo; John A. Rogers

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Concentrator photovoltaic module architectures with capabilities for capture and conversion of full global solar radiation

Kyu Tae Lee, Yuan Yao, Junwen He, Brent Fisher, Xing Sheng, Matthew Lumb, Lu Xu, Mikayla A. Anderson, David Scheiman, Seungyong Han, Yongseon Kang, Abdurrahman Gumus, Rabab R. Bahabry, Jung Woo Lee, Ungyu Paik, Noah D. Bronstein, A. Paul Alivisatos, Matthew Meitl, Scott Burroughs, Muhammad Mustafa HussainJeong Chul Lee, Ralph G. Nuzzo, John A. Rogers

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Emerging classes ofconcentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules reach efficiencies that are far greater than those of even the highest performance flat-plate PV technologies, with architectures that have the potential to provide the lowest cost of energy in locations with high direct normal irradiance (DNI). A disadvantage is their inability to effectively use diffuse sunlight, thereby constraining widespread geographic deployment and limiting performance even under the most favorable DNI conditions. This study introduces a module design that integrates capabilities in flat-plate PV directly with the most sophisticated CPV technologies, for capture of both direct and diffuse sunlight, thereby achieving efficiency in PV conversion of the global solar radiation. Specific examples of this scheme exploit commodity silicon (Si) cells integrated with two different CPV module designs, where they capture light that is not efficiently directed by the concentrator optics onto large-scale arrays of miniature multijunction (MJ) solar cells that use advanced III-V semiconductor technologies. In this CPV scheme (

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	E8210-E8218
Number of pages	1
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume	113
Issue number	51
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617391113
State	Published - Dec 5 2016

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Lee, K. T., Yao, Y., He, J., Fisher, B., Sheng, X., Lumb, M., Xu, L., Anderson, M. A., Scheiman, D., Han, S., Kang, Y., Gumus, A., Bahabry, R. R., Lee, J. W., Paik, U., Bronstein, N. D., Alivisatos, A. P., Meitl, M., Burroughs, S., ... Rogers, J. A. (2016). Concentrator photovoltaic module architectures with capabilities for capture and conversion of full global solar radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(51), E8210-E8218. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617391113

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